“Fiction is to grown men what play is to the child.”
“It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to.”
“And if they're fictional, it is entirely acceptable to cheat on fictional men with other fictional men.”
“Do grown men always have to play games? Does everything have to be an excuse for another kind of game? Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?”
“Fiction does not spring into the world fully grown, like Athena. It is the process of writing and rewriting that makes a fiction original, if not profound.”
“A grown child is a dangerous thing.”