What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.

Awe consumes any brand that ignites it.

Invention despoils observations, insinuation invalidates memory. A stewpot of bad habits, all of it - so that imaginative writers wind up, by and large, a shifty crew, sunk in distortion, misrepresentation, illusion, imposture, fakery.

The secular Jew is a figment; when a Jew becomes a secular person he is no longer a Jew.

Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.

One reason writers write is out of revenge.

Death persecutes before it executes.