By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

There's always something new by looking at the same thing over and over.

Why does one never hear of government funding for the preservation and encouragement of comic strips, girlie magazines and TV soap operas? Because these genres still hold the audience they were created to amuse and instruct.

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

I once did something right. I played first-rate basketball. I really did. And after you're first-rate at something, no matter what, it kind of takes the kick out of being second-rate.

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

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