For A Man To Know What He

Updike And Bellow And Roth Were My Three Favorite Writers When I Was Young And Throughout My Life.

My Novels Are Very Much The Same, As I Think Many People's Novels Are.

Love Is A Rebellious Bird That No One Can Tame

To Say It Was A Beautiful Day Would Not Begin To Explain It. It Was That Day When The End Of Summer Intersects Perfectly With The Start Of Fall .... [p.218 Ff.]

Hope Is A Horrible Thing, You Know. I Don't Know Who Decided To Package Hope As A Virtue Because It's Not. It's A Plague. Hope Is Like Walking Around With A Fishhook In Your Mouth And Somebody Just Keeps Pulling It And Pulling It.