I Believe Only In Art And Failure.

It's Not The Length But The Quality Of Life That Matters To Me. It Has Always Been Important To Me To Write One Sentence At A Time, To Live Every Day As If It Were My Last And Judge It In Those Terms, Often Badly, Not Because It Lacked Grand Gesture Or Grand Passion But Because It Failed In The Daily Virtues Of Self-discipline, Kindness, And Laughter. It Is Love, Very Ordinary, Human Love, And Not Fear, Which Is The Good Teacher And The Wisest Judge.

Coming Out, All The Way Out, Is Offered More And More As The Political Solution To Our Oppression.

Morality For The Novelist Is Expressed Not So Much In The Choice Of Subject Matter As In The Plot Of The Narrative, Which Is Perhaps Why In Our Morally Bewildered Time Novelists Have Often Been Timid About Plot.

The Real Power Of Books Is Their Deep Companionability. We Learn From Them As We Learn From The Deep Companionability Of Love To Know Our Own Hearts And Minds Better.

I Didn't Want To Be A Boy, Ever, But I Was Outraged That His Height And Intelligence Were Graces For Him And Gaucheries For Me.