It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway..

Only another writer can know how much damage writing a novel can do to you. It's an unnatural activity to sit at a desk and squeeze words out of your….

Love is simple to understand if you haven't got a mind soft and full of holes. It's a crutch, that's all, and there isn't any one of us that doesn't ….

Television is coitus interruptus brought into aesthetics..

I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for..

Armstrong, sitting in the commander's seat, spacesuit on, helmet on, plugged into electrical and environmental umbilical's, is a man who is not only ….

I was thinking that surgeons had to be the happiest people on earth. To cut people up and get paid for it-that's happiness, I told myself..

Part of the oncoming demise (of New York during its terrible fiscal crisis) is that none of us can simply believe it. We were always the best and the….

On a late-winter evening in 1983, while driving through fog along the Maine coast, recollections of old campfires began to drift into the March mist,….

The sole virtue of losing your short-term memory is that it does free you to be your own editor..

Writing for a newspaper is like running a revolutionary war. You go to battle not when you are ready, but when action offers itself..

The way you write affects what you say..

Great hope has no real footing unless one is willing to face into the doom that may also be on the way. p.207.

We sail across dominions barely seen, washed by the swells of time. We plow through fields of magnetism. Past and future come together on thunderhead….

I don't read other writers because I'm writing all the time. It's too disturbing to read a writer with a good style when you're in the middle of putt….

We're all divided souls, we've got two natures in us, You measure schizophrenia not by the fact that you're divided but how well the divisions speak ….

There are four stages to marriage. First there's the affair, then there's the marriage, then children, and finally the fourth stage, without which yo….

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit..

Did a sense of shame ever reside in our Republican toadies? You can't stop people who are never embarrassed by themselves. Will's readiness to turn a….

Psychoanalysis and Zen, in my private psychic geometry, are equal to nicotine. They are anti-existential. Nicotine quarantines one out of existence..

There are two kinds of brave men: those who are brave by the grace of nature, and those who are brave by an act of will..