It's true that the young who now flock to script writing, or producing and directing, to fulfill the demands of these new devices would, in an earlier period, have been submitting to magazines and working on their first novels. But even in the midst of all these "digital products," the wonder of it is that there are still so many young writers who continue to believe in the venerable print novel as the corridor to fame and fortune.

Bohemia and all its works are vanished out of America; or, more exactly, bohemia has migrated to the middle class, and is alive and well in condo and suburb.

It is useless either to hate or to love truth - but it should be noticed.

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

The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.

We are so placid that the smallest tremor of objection is taken as a full-scale revolution.

In real life wishing, divorced from willing, is sterile and begets nothing.