Poor Grendel's had an accident. So may you all.

The citizen can bring our political and governmental institutions back to life, make them responsive and accountable, and keep them honest. No one else can.

One must be just a little crazy to write a great novel. One must be capable of allowing the darkest, most ancient and shrewd parts of one’s being to take over the work from time to time.

Writing a novel is like heading out over the open sea in a small boat. It helps, if you have a plan and a course laid out.

When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.

Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see.

What art ought to do is tell stories which are moment-by-moment wonderful, which are true to human experience, and which in no way explain human experience.