I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some people sound like a very long one, but the novel as art is a middle-aged art.

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If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we...

If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we...

I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height...

I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height...

I believe only in art and failure.

I believe only in art and failure.

Love is the terrible secret people are suspected of unless they're married, then one always...

Love is the terrible secret people are suspected of unless they're married, then one always...

Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution...

Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution...

My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day...

My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day...

I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because...

I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because...

I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height...

I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height...

Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is...

Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is...

Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.

Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.

The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against...

The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against...

If the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of...

If the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of...

People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other...

People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other...

Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.

Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.

Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving...

Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving...

Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world...

Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world...