The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.

I have always wanted a swimming pool and never had one.

New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion.

People tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one last thing to remember. Writers are always selling somebody out.

Grammar is a piano I play by ear.

Throw yourself into the convulsions of the world. I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I don't believe progress is necessarily part of the package. I'm just telling you to live in it, to look at it, to witness it. Try and get it. Seize the moment.

Time is the school in which we learn.