Why are stamps adorned with kings and presidents? That we may lick their hinder parts and thump their heads.

A teacher is a person who never says anything once.

Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?

When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.

The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.

Writing is like the relationship with your bowels. First you can, then you can't. Finally, you must. Only then should you reach for the paper.

That so much of our experience, or the stereotype which passes for it should be dealt with by means of the short story is perhaps a symptom not unnoticeable elsewhere in the public domain of an unlovely cynicism about human character.