John Irving Once Told Me He Doesn't

We Only Rise Above Mediocrity When There's Something At Stake. P. 174

Employing Women As My Primary Protagonists Has Allowed Me To Step Outside Of Myself, To Distance Myself From My Own Personality, Far More Easily Than Were I To Look At Events From A Masculine Perspective.

Human Beings Were Not Well Served By Permanence Or Stasis. Obviously, If Individuals Were Progressing, They Were Undergoing A Series Of Presumably Desirable Alterations, But In A Universe Where Flux Is Fundamental, It Can Be Argued That Even Change For The Worse Is Preferable To No Change At All. Isn't Fixity The Hallmark Of The Living Dead?.

Toys Are Made In Heaven, Batteries Are Made In Hell.

People Write Memoirs Because They Lack The Imagination To Make Things Up.