The short story is the literature of the nomad.

That's the way I remember them, heading for an exit.

The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos (no less) and we can accomplish this only by the most vigilant exercise of choice, but in a world that changes more swiftly that we can perceive there is always the danger that our powers of selection will be mistaken and that the vision we serve will come to nothing.

The fear of death is for all of us everywhere, but for the great intelligence of the opium eater it is beautifully narrowed into the crux of drugs.

Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.

Novels are about men and women and children and dogs, not politics.