The Hardest Thing About Writing Is Writing.

... The State Of Rapture I Experience When I Read A Wonderful Book Is One Of The Main Reasons I Read; But It Doesn't Happen Every Time Or Even Every Other Time, And When It Does Happen, I Am Truly Beside Myself.

You Can't Retrieve You Life (unless You're On Wikipedia, In Which Case You Can Retrieve An Inaccurate Version Of It).

Food Became, For Dinner Parties In The Sixties, What Abstract Expressionism Had Been In The Fifties.

I Think You Often Have That Sense When You Write--that If You Can Spot Something In Yourself And Set It Down On Paper, You're Free Of It. And You're Not, Of Course; You've Just Managed To Set It Down On Paper, That's All.

I Look Out The Window And I See The Lights And The Skyline And The People On The Street Rushing Around Looking For Action, Love, And The World's Greatest Chocolate Chip Cookie, And My Heart Does A Little Dance.