Audiences know what to expect, and that is all that they are prepared to believe in.

The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation.

Sometimes people are so close to the material, they miss an important cross-reference. You can't drop this line because half an hour later, it affects that line. And the writer is the person who knows that immediately.

What are a friend's books for if not to be borrowed?

...reality, the name we give to the common experience.

I love love. I love having a lover and being one. The insularity of passion. I love it. I love the way it blurs the distinction between everyone who isn't one's lover.

Each move is dictated by the previous one--that is the meaning of order