Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of creation can be accomplished. Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated. The whole of the mind must lie wide open if we are to get the sense that the

Fear no more, says the heart.

The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

Now the writer, I think, has the chance to live more than other people in the presence of ... reality. It is his business to find it and collect it and communicate it to the rest of us.

Intimacy is a difficult art.

Facts must be manipulated; some must be brightened; others shaded; yet, in the process, they must never lose their integrity.

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.