Time is the school in which we learn.

I can't imagine writing if I didn't have a reader. Any more than an actor can imagine acting without an audience.

Of course, you always think about how it will be read. I always aim for a reading in one sitting.

The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past ... Here is the last stop for all those who come from somewhere else, for all those who drifted away from the cold and the past and the old ways.

The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy.

I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us.

There must be times when everybody writes when they feel they're evading writing.