It's just that it's hard to believe in greatness.

In 1957, I decided: write or perish.

One alters the past to form the future but there is a real significance to the pattern which finally appears, which resists all further change.

You’re so American. You believe everything is possible, everything will come. I know differently.

The whole joy of writing comes from the opportunity to go over it and make it good, one way or another.

Life is weather. Life is meals.

Hope but not enthusiasm is the proper state for the writer.