I Would Prefer You Not To Say,

Friendship Needs Both Confidences And Confidence In The Other's Outstretched Hand.

Self-pity Is Never Useful. It Tends To Distort Like A Fun-house Mirror.

I Think Our Material Is Our Lives. That's Part Of Being A Modern Writer, And We Have To Use It.

When I Grew Up, You Needed To Have Straight Hair. It's Symbolic Of Needing To Be Like Everyone Else, Needing To Look Like Everyone Else. And What That Meant Was Looking Like The Dominant Ruling Class In America.

It's True, We Tend To Write About The Same Thing Over And Over Again Because This Is Our Trauma. If I Had Been In World War Ii, I Might Have Been Writing About D-day Over And Over Again.