I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway.

We read about how Ajax and Achilles will die for each other, but very little about the friendship of women.

Evil is just sort of ultimately boring. The good thing is just complicated. It's more provocative to me and more stimulating to me.

It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love ... You can't own a human being.

I thought the whole world was like Lorain.

More than fear of loving bears or birds bigger than cows, I fear pathless nights. How, I wonder, can I find you in the dark?

You have to be willing to think the unthinkable.