Time at length becomes justice.

It is true that money attracts; but much money repels.

I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer.

Resentment is a communicable disease and should be quarantined.

We were born to die; we were born to endure, on the way to death, sorrow-sorrow in manifold shapes.

If ideas are what feed serious literature and arresting language, who today is writing a novel of ideas (which can often mean comedy)? I think of Joshua Cohen. Who else?

One reason writers write is out of revenge.