Life is difficult enough without Meryl Streep movies.

I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany´s.

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.

I just live one day at a time. That's my new theory in life.

Some prisons don't allow guitar because the strings can be detached and used as weapons.

If you sweep a house, and tend its fires and fill its stove, and there is love in you all the years you are doing this, then you and that house are married, that house is yours.

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.