There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.

Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.

At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded.

I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various.

It's very hard when I've seen a couple of people very beloved in my life with terrible degenerative diseases.

I wasn't a pushy parent - you have to let children be who they want to be.

I was not born into a rich family or a family of government officials.

There were interesting ways that queerness could hide out and get played out pre-Stonewall. It is part of a vast history that is getting forgotten quickly as we trumpet forward into gay marriage and gays in the military and a much different cultural attitude toward gay lives.