I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.

(Feedback) People become addicted to it. That’s why journalism is so popular, because you want to hear, every day, what people think of what you just wrote. I think a little patience on that front can be good, too.

In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.

Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility.

When the male organ of a man stands erect, two thirds of his intelect go away. And one third of his religion.

This is what divorce is: taking things you no longer want from people you no longer love.

Jerome said, It's like, a family doesn't work anymore when everyone in it is more miserable than they would be if they were alone, You know?