I couldn't stand it. I still can't stand it. I can't stand the way things are. I cannot tolerate this age.

Americans are the nicest, most generous, and sentimental people on earth. Yet Americans have killed more unborn children than any nation in history.

The enduring is something which must be accounted for. One cannot simply shrug it off.

There is no pain on this earth like seeing the same woman look at another man the way she once looked at you.

Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.

But there is much to be said for giving up ... grand ambitions and living the most ordinary life imaginable.

I sometimes think novelists write about sex in order to avoid boring themselves to death.