 For me, there is nothing worse than the knowledge that my life holds nothing for me but being a writer. |
| A small silence came between us, as precise as a picture hanging on the wall. |
| Irony, I feel, is a very high form of morality. |
| From time to time, I need a rest from the exercitation of my intellect. |
| For all practical purposes I left home when I was 7. |
| I am growing meaner by the hour. |
| You say that you hope I will be recognized as the best novelist of my generation. I want you to know now and know completely that that would mean to me absolutely nothing. |
| He does what I have always needed to have done to me, and that is that he dominates me. |
