The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.

Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.

If football players were armed with guns, there wouldn't be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds.

I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young

A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.

I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal

I look at everything. God gave me eyes and I look at women and men and subway excavations and moving pictures and the little flowers of the field. I casually inspect the universe.