I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn’t have any.

I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men – at least they can cry.

I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn’t have any.

Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.

Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It’s more often a succession of jerks.