“I am closed off into myself and no one but me can ever help me get out.”
“Not doing something crude right off is about as close as a guy like me ever gets to class.”
“Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself.”
“It's by understanding me, and the boys, and mother, that you have helped me. I expect that is the only way one person ever really can help another.”
“One of the things my parents taught me, and I'll always be grateful as a gift, is to not ever let anybody else define me; that for me to define myself . . . and I think that helped me a lot in assuming a leadership position.”
“Writing fiction takes me out of time. I sit down and the clock will not exist for me for a few hours. That’s probably as close to immortal as we’ll ever get.”