All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.

I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.

A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.

Writers do not merely reflect and interpret life, they inform and shape life.

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

I would really rather feel bad in Maine than feel good anywhere else

I have occasionally had the exquisite thrill of putting my finger on a little capsule of truth, and heard it give the faint squeak of mortality under my pressure.