A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories.

Boredom is the self being stuffed with itself.

Joy and sadness come by turns.

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

But what physician has not had patients who don't make any sense at all? To tell the truth, they're our stock-in-trade. We talk and write about the ones we can make sense of.

Ooooh," Kate groans, Kate herself now. "I'm so afraid." "I know." "What am I going to do?" "You mean right now?" "Yes." "We'll go to my car. Then we'll drive down to the French Market and get some coffee. Then we'll go home." "Is everything going to be all right?" "Yes." "Tell me. Say it." "Everything is going to be all right.

Being uneducated is no guarantee against being obnoxious.