We should imitate the great classics. We would miss, and that miss would be our originality.
To me age is a number, just a number. Who cares?
I shall die very young. . . maybe seventy, maybe eighty, maybe ninety. But I shall be very young.
Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I'm finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden.
To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.
For me it's not possible to forget, and I don't understand people who, when the love is ended, can bury the other person in hatred or oblivion. For me, a man I have loved becomes a kind of brother.
To be free means to choose, whose slave you want to be.
I hope that somewhere in Small Town, U. S. A. , a 15-year-old kid looks to me as a role model the way I looked at the Indigo Girls and Elton John as role models.
I think I'm someone who can prattle on a long time about something, which serves me well as a novelist, but it's the enemy when I'm writing short stories.
When you have a liberal class that no longer functions, when those people who traditionally defend and care about a civil society no longer do so, then you cede power to very frightening, deformed figures, all of which we are watching leap up around the fringes of our political establishment - this lunatic fringe, which has largely taken over the Republican Party.
I believe for the first time in history, entrepreneurship is now a viable career.