What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce. Mark Twain Women are an alien race set down among us.

The - writing is a kind of act of aggression, and a person who is not aggressive in his normal, may I say, intercourse with humanity might well be an aggressive writer.

Photography is the first art wherein the tool does most of the work.

Russia is the only country of the world you can be homesick for while you're still in it.

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.

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.

If she’d been born at the right time they would have burned her over in Salem.