The word heterosexual is an adjective, the word homosexual is an adjective. They describe an activity. Of course there's a homosexual activity; of course there's a heterosexual activity. But there's no homosexual person. There's no heterosexual person. Everybody is everything.

Nonprofit status is what created the Bible Belt. The tax code brought religion back to this country.

True wisdom is to know the extent of what you don't know quite as well as you know what you do know.

Writers who teach tend to prefer literary theory to literature and tenure to all else. Writers who do not teach prefer the contemplation of Careers to art of any kind.

I have always found men quite fathomable. They look entirely to their own interest.

The brain that doesn't feed itself, eats itself.

The Americans are clever. They thoroughly understand things that have to do with money, war, death, sickness. And there is also a real tradition of skepticism in this country.