With short stories, the story-teller must have a story to tell, not merely some sweet prose to take out for a walk

The magic will which makes us see the other side of our natures-dream and disaster, catastrophe and fulfillment-is the great permanent challenge of humanity.

He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast.

Old age is wasted on the elderly: the young know what to do with it-insist on something different.

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.

With short stories, the story-teller must have a story to tell, not merely some sweet prose to take out for a walk

Conformity is inevitable when folks huddle together in rebellion.