«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.»
If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.
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...
They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.
Novels are just another kind of cross-dressing, aren't they?
What do you think I imagine making love to a vagina would be like? Maybe like having sex with a ballroom!
You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
Don't get your balls crossed about it.
You can't learn everything you need to know legally.
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...
Of course, if I write a first-person novel about a woman writer, I am inviting every book reviewer to apply the autobiographical label -- to conclude that I am writing about myself. But one must never...
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.
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...
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...
Thinking of Rooie, he was not entirely alone. He'd even chosen a hotel that he thought Rooie would have liked. Although it was not the most expensive hotel in Zurich, it was too expensive for a cop. B...
Escribió que la peor razón para que algo ocurriera en una novela era que hubiera ocurrido realmente. ¡Todo ha ocurrido realmente, alguna vez!, rabiaba. La única razón para que algo ocurra es que es pe...
The way you remember or dream about your loved ones - the ones who are gone - you can't stop their endings from jumping ahead of the rest of their stories. You don't get to choose the chronology of wh...
He wanted to take Homer Wells in his arms, and hug him, and kiss him, but he could only hope that Homer understood how much Dr. Larch's self-esteem was dependent on his self-control.
To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.
The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.