The ordinary is the divine.

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?

It isn't the instrument that influences High-Minded or Low-Minded; it's the quality of Mind itself.

Every writer aspires to recognition , and it comes entirely privately, without public fanfare, each time a piece of work is judged worthy of publication.

I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing.

Language makes culture, and we make a rotten culture when we abuse words.

The engineering is secondary to the vision.