Occupation: Novelist Birth: March 19, 1933
Fear presides over these memories, a perpetual fear.Of course no childhood is without its terrors, yet I wonder if I would have been a less frightene….
When I have a first draft, I have a floor under my feet that I can walk on. Then, especially with the help of the computer, rewriting is so easy to d….
Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game..
You be greater than your feelings. I don't demand this of you - life does. Otherwise you'll be washed away by feelings. You'll be washed out to sea a….
I’m interested in what people do with the chaos in their lives and how they respond to it, and simultaneously what they do with what they feel like a….
Doctor doctor, what do you say, lets put the id back in yid.
We leave a stain, we leave a trail, we leave our imprint. Impurity, cruelty, abuse, error, excrement, semen - there’s no other way to be here. Nothin….
Dreams? If only they had been! But I don't need dreams, Doctor, that's why I hardly have them—because I have this life instead. With me it all happen….
The only way to have a funeral is to invite everyone who ever knew the person and just wait for the accident to happen-somebody who comes in out of t….
Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that -- well, lucky you..
How easy life is when it's easy, and how hard when it's hard..
The horror of being caged has lost its thrill..
I was a biography in constant motion, memory to the marrow of my bones..
This is what you know about someone you have to hate: he charges you with his crime and castigates himself in you..
I'm an Obama supporter. And if you're an Obama supporter that means you had a hard time during the Bush years..
Turned the wrong way around, the relentless unforeseen was what we schoolchildren studied in "History", harmless history, where everything unexpected….
People were standing up everywhere shouting, "This is me! This is me!" Every time you looked at them they stood up and told you who they were, and th….
Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?.
There were many hours when I never quite know how I'd gotten there or why I stayed..
You take off your clothes and you're in bed with somebody, and that is indeed where whatever you've concealed, your particularity, whatever it may be….
Stop worrying about growing old. And think about growing up..