The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.

The literary scene is a kind of Medusa’s raft, small and sinking, and one’s instinct when a newcomer tries to clamber aboard is to step on his fingers.

We all begin life as parasites within the mother, and writers begin their existence imitatively, within the body of letters.

Being a famous writer is a little like being a tall dwarf. You're on the edge of normality.

The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.

A photograph presents itself not only as a visual representation, but as evidence, more convincing than a painting because of the unimpeachable mechanical means whereby it was made. We do not trust the artist's flattering hand; but we do trust film, and shadows, and light.

Prose should have a flow, the forward momentum of a certain energized weight; it should feel like a voice tumbling in your ear.