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

Isolation from power makes men look for a mob in which they can be strong.

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

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.

To construct a proper privacy, making it a privilege rather than a burden, we first need to construct a community-love, family, politics, art.

Catastrophe and desire are linked in our lives as the moon is linked to that reflected light from the sun which enables the eye to see it.

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.