When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me.

It was all those biographies in me yelling, 'We want out. We want to tell you what we've done to you.'

Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.

No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.

... we are all terribly alone no matter what people say.

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.

If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.