Stop Worrying About Growing Old. And Think

Literature Got Me Into This Mess And Literature Is Going To Have To Get Me Out Of It.

I Wouldn't Mind Writing A Long Book Which Is Going To Occupy Me For The Rest Of My Life.

It Isn't That You Subordinate Your Ideas To The Force Of The Facts In Autobiography But That You Construct A Sequence Of Stories To Bind Up The Facts With A Persuasive Hypothesis That Unravels Your History's Meaning.

I Don't Wish To Be A Slave Any Longer To The Stringent Exigencies Of Literature.

When I Was A Child... I Was Watching A Snowstorm, And Hopefully Asked, 'momma, Do We Believe In Winter?'