My only duty was to describe reality as it had come to me-to give the mundane its beautiful due.

Fiction is in danger of becoming a kind of poetry. Only other poets read it. Only other fiction writers care about it.

To be a human being is to be in a state of tension between your appetites and your dreams, and the social realities around you and your obligations to your fellow man.

School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.

Nothing feels worse than other people's good times.

We were all brought up to want things and maybe the world isn't big enough for all that wanting. I don't know. I don't know anything

How can you respect the world when you see it's being run by a bunch of kids turned old?