The older we get, the more Jewish we become in my family.

Art keeps one young, I think, because it keeps one perpetually a beginner, perpetually a child.

It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.

it is not unusual to hate great writers before we learn to love them. Because they have created something that did not yet exist, they must also create their audience. Sometimes the audience is not yet ready. Sometimes it has yet to be born.

They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.

The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.

I don't know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else's erotica that you don't like. People are interested in their own sexuality and they've always reflected it in their art. End of story.