Stories should be natural as apples, brief as lust, long as a thought.

- Leonard Michaels

Adultery is not about sex or romance. Ultimately, it is about how little we mean to one another.

- Leonard Michaels

There is always something for which there is no accounting. Take, for example, the whole world.

- Leonard Michaels

Looking at a cat, like looking at clouds or stars or the ocean, makes it difficult to believe there is nothing miraculous in this world.

- Leonard Michaels

Of mystery there is no end. Of clarity, there is precious little.

- Leonard Michaels

There's hardly anywhere in literature where you don't find a triangle.

- Leonard Michaels

I can only gesture at what makes a story good.

- Leonard Michaels

The prose as such has to be singing the song the story is telling.

- Leonard Michaels

I read assiduously. I kept in touch with my species.

- Leonard Michaels