Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.

I want story, wit, music, wryness, color, and a sense of reality in what I read, and I try to get it in what I write.

If you would be thrilled by watching the galloping advance of a major glacier, you'd be ecstatic watching changes in publishing.

The only thing that prisons demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.

A nonreader is somebody standing there in a blindfold.

Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather.

In the morning I'm often anti-semantic.