I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline...
«È un buon segno piangere per un romanzo» mi assicurò Miss Frost.«Un buon segno?»«Significa che hai più cuore della maggior parte dei tuoi coetanei.»
Novels are just another kind of cross-dressing, aren't they?
Don't get your balls crossed about it.
You can't learn everything you need to know legally.
If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.
You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
For a terrible time of life a teen-ager deceives himself; he believes he can trick the world. He believes he is invulnerable. An adolescent who is an orphan at this phase is in danger of never growing...
What do you think I imagine making love to a vagina would be like? Maybe like having sex with a ballroom!
They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.
Keep passing the open windows.
If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.
Six-Pack didn't despise George W. Bush to the degree that Ketchum did, but she thought the president was a smirking twerp and a dumbed-down daddy's boy, and she agreed with Ketchum's assessment that B...
– with his own very male instincts, which were otherwise
All I say is: Let us leave les folles alone; let's just leave them be. Don't judge them. You are not superior to them - don't put them down.
A person's faith goes at its own pace. The trouble with church is the service. A service is conducted for a mass audience. Just when I start to like the hymn, everyone plops down to pray. Just when I...
Mother's intentions were always sound, never muddy; I don't imagine that she troubled herself to feel very guilty. But the Rev. Mr. Merrill was a man who took to wallowing in guilt; his remorse, after...
Half my life is an act of revision.
Life is serious but art is fun!
The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.