New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed.

Success and money can really be quite blinding.

I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.

Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot.

A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.

The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it.

I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching.