And so the ordinary unendurable torments we all experienced were indeed exceptional in the way they were absorbed in each heart.

Longing, the hope for fulfillment, is the one unwavering passion of the world's commerce.

I've known several cases of writers who decide to write about something and they research the hell out of it and when they're ready to write, they can't move because they are so burdened. I start writing. Whatever I need somehow comes to hand.

Implications of treason are fed like cubes of sugar to the twelve-headed animal which is justice. In ... opening remarks. In the way questions are asked. In support of lines of questioning where cases of treason are cited and the Judge endorses the relevance of the citation.

One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.

A writer of books has to admit that film is the enemy, and that in my case I have been sleeping with the enemy.

We make a mistake to condescend to the past as if it were preparatory to our own time.