Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.

Golf camaraderie, like that of astronauts and Antarctic explorers, is based on a common experience of transcendence; fat or thin, scratch or duffer, we have been somerwhere together where non-golfers never go.

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart.

I'm not against TV; I don't go on the morning talk shows because I'm not invited. If I was, I might go.

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

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.