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

Vagueness and procrastination are ever a comfort to the frail in spirit.

Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them.

The measure of artistic merit is the length to which a writer is willing to go in following his own compulsions.

Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over-animation. One can either see or be seen.

We're past the age of heroes and hero kings. ... Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it's up to the writer to find ways to make them interesting.

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