“It’s a tiresome proposition, having to take up the work of the Enlightenment all over again, but it’s happened on your watch.”
“If your life works, and you work in it, then it’s okay, whatever is happening is okay.”
“The roller-coaster is my life; life is a fast, dizzying game; life is a parachute jump; it’s taking chances, falling over and getting up again; it’s mountaineering; it’s wanting to get to the very top of yourself and feeling angry and dissatisfied when you don’t manage it”
“It’s funny how the good things are all tied up with the bad. Sometimes it’s hard to tell which is which. But either way, you end up taking your sugar with your salt and your kicks with your kisses.”
“You have to wait for your mind to catch up with whatever it is it’s working on; then you can write a novel.”
“It’s easy to watch someone else’s life crash and burn, harder to watch your own accident up close.”