Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.

... it's possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.

You write by sitting down and writing. There's no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature. How one works, assuming he's disciplined, doesn't matter.

There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.

Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

All men are Jews, though few men know it.