how i have loved

"I knew that there was one thing I wanted to be and that was a writer."

I am two days late to the party (and it should be a PARTY), but to Norman Mailer... an appropriate salute. I shall have a drink for him tonight. Perhaps punch some one and then write a short story.

...I identified with that man quite a bit more than I probably should have. He died Saturday.

"I take it for granted that there's a side of me that loves public action, and there's another side of me that really wants to be alone and work and write. And I've learned to alternate the two as matters develop."

"There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same."

"What ruins most writers of talent is that they don't get enough experience, so their novels tend to develop a certain paranoid perfection."

"There are two kinds of brave men: those who are brave by the grace of nature, and those who are brave by an act of will."

"You’re a fool if you don’t realize this is going to be the reactionary’s century, perhaps their thousand-year reign. It’s the one thing Hitler said which wasn’t completely hysterical."

"Dying can’t be all that difficult, up to now everyone has managed to do it."