The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.

A Marxist has never written a good novel.

They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff.

As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis.

God is a writer and we are both the heroes and the readers.

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

When literature becomes overly erudite, it means that interest in the art has gone and curiosity about the artist is what's important. It becomes a kind of idolatry.