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.

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.

The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.

We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: "It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.

We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.

Writers who can't invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn't paint people, so he painted chairs.

A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.