Nobody's a natural. You work to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.
You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: That world is gone.
American writers want to be not good but great; and so are neither.
From time to time, I need a rest from the exercitation of my intellect.
Once I got out of school, I sent my clippings around and nabbed some freelance writing work while holding down full-time office jobs.
Once I could persuade these guys that all I wanted to hear from them was what they did - Tell me what you do - once you can persuade someone that this is all you're after, you can't shut them up because we're all fascinated by what we do.
There's been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I've heard the word Charlatans more in the last few years than I'd heard it for the previous 20 years. People would interview me for years and never even mention the Charlatans.
The relationships that people have - that are sexual, psychological, emotional - these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools, churches, or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like that.
She would have been a very remarkable woman, if she had not been an old maid.
He does what I have always needed to have done to me, and that is that he dominates me.