You're wonderful. Unique. I love you.

If you have a single narrator, a person like an "I" - "'I' did this" and "'I' did that" - it automatically solves the most difficult problem in writing.

I hated Hemingway. I liked Faulkner but he was a bore.

I told you: you can make yourself love anybody.

But he does look stupid.' Yearning. Not stupid. He wants awfully to be on the inside staring out: anybody with their nose pressed against a glass is liable to look stupid.

It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.

When seriously explored, the short story seems to me the most difficult and disciplining form of prose writing extant. Whatever control and technique I may have I owe entirely to my training in this medium.