A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

The two greatest plays ever written were Hamlet and Oedipus Rex, and they're both about father-son relationships.

A suicide kills two people, that's what it's for!

The writer must be in it; he can't be to one side of it, ever. He has to be endangered by it. His own attitudes have to be tested in it. The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing himself, always.

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!

The word "now" is like a bomb through the window, and it ticks.