Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out.

For the political world, I have come to believe, is fundamentally beyond anyone's control, yet we all go on as though it were a kind of vehicle that only needs a change of drivers in order to steer it away from its frequent hair-raising visits to the edge of the cliff.

An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.

You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit.

A lot of my work goes to the center of where we belong--if there is any root to life -because nowadays the family is broken up, and people don't live in the same place for very long.