I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.
When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.
Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.
Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.
All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.
The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.
It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.
Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.
The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.
People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.
Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.
That's the way I remember them, heading for an exit.
Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.
