There aren't many shy writers left.

Anybody who becomes a movie star becomes successful at projecting a certain image to the public.

Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.

Bottles of wine aren't like paintings. At some point you have to consume them. The object in life is to die with no bottles of wine in your cellar. To drink your last bottle of wine and go to sleep that night and not wake up.

We've been hearing about the death of the novel ever since the day after Don Quixote was published.

The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.

There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention.