Just to live in the country is a full-time job. You don't have to do anything. The idle pursuit of making a living is pushed to one side, where it belongs, in favor of living itself, a task of such immediacy, variety, beauty, and excitement that one is powerless to resist its wild embrace.

A good many of the special words of business seem designed more to express the user's dreams than to express a precise meaning.

A writer should tend to lift people up, not lower them down.

A writer's style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias...it is the Self escaping into the open.

I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the day difficult.

It is deeply satisfying to win a prize in front of a lot of people.

The circus comes as close to being the world in microcosm as anything I know; in a way, it puts all the rest of show business in the shade.