I have the reputation for having read all of Henry James. Which would argue a misspent youth and middle age.

It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

I don't believe the writer should know too much where he's going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprint—old man propaganda.

The act of writing is either something the writer dreads or actually likes, and I actually like it. Even re-writing's fun. You're getting somewhere, whether it seems to move or not.

I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart.

Columbus is a town in which almost anything is likely to happen, and in which almost everything has.