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“Is that the basis of friendship? Is it as reactive as that? Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting?... Do we all buzz or ring or light up when people press our vanity buttons, and only then? Can I think of anyone in my whole life whom I have liked without his first showing signs of liking me?”
― Crossing to Safety
― Crossing to Safety
“Writing is a solitary business. It takes over your life. In some sense, a writer has no life of his own. Even when he’s there, he’s not really there.”
― The New York Trilogy
― The New York Trilogy
“Are writers reporters, prophets, crazies, entertainers, preachers, judges, what?”
― Crossing to Safety
― Crossing to Safety
“Nothing is so safe as habit, even when habit is faked.”
― Crossing to Safety
― Crossing to Safety
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