“Read, learn, work it up, go to the literature.Information is control.”

“Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same is true of control.”

“Time is the school in which we learn.”

“Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.”

“I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4 a.m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends.”

“Because we were both writers and both worked at home our days were filled with the sound of each other's voice”

“We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the "ideas" with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.”