The images of things are not the things in themselves.

Every major work of art is a transgression, but the artist is not necessarily, by nature, a transgressor.

Anyone at any age is able to tell the story of his or her life with authority.

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

Time seems to me a drift, a shifting of sand. And my mind is shifting with it. I am wearing away.

Whenever citizens are seen routinely as enemies of their own government, writers are rountinely seen to be the most dangerous enemies.

Leo Crowley, Harry [Truman]'s Foreign Economic Administrator, tells Congressmen the theory...: 'If you create good governments in foreign countries, automatically you will have better markets for ourselves.' With that honeycunt staring you in the face, you'd forget your grammar too.