Capitalism has resulted in material well-being but spiritual bankruptcy.

Her eyes watered and she was a foot taller than any of her sisters, mostly because of the length of her neck which would one day hang from the end of a rope

The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind.

It's often said that a traumatic experience early in life marks a person forever, pulls her out of line, saying, "Stay there. Don't move.

I know that attaching memories to books may be going out of the world, but while it lasts, it's a strong record of your life.

The daily act of writing remains as demanding and maddening as it was before, and the pleasure you get from writing - rare but profound - remains at the true heart of the enterprise. On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching.

I was unemployable when I got out of college.