Libraries Are The One American Institution You

I Learned To Write By Reading The Kind Of Books I Wished I'd Written.

Restraint Equals Indulgence

Morality Is Not A Large, Constructed *thing* You Have Or Have Not, But Simply A Capacity. Something You Carry With You In Your Brain And In Your Hands.

Beginning A Novel Is Always Hard. It Feels Like Going Nowhere. I Always Have To Write At Least 100 Pages That Go Into The Trashcan Before It Finally Begins To Work. It's Discouraging, But Necessary To Write Those Pages. I Try To Consider Them Pages -100 To Zero Of The Novel.

God, Why Does A Mortal Man Have Children? It Is Senseless To Love Anything This Much.