Respect and fear are two different things.
I don't know - is everything the U.S. does a shocking embarrassment?
Some novelists are luckier than others in the eras of their formative intellectual years, but all Weltanschauungs return, which means that most novelists have at least a chance of a revival.
Candy is my fuel. Ice cream, too.
My great fear is not that I'll run out of ideas. It's that I'll run out of time.
The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness.