In a country this large and a language even larger ... there ought to be a living for somebody who cares and wants to entertain and instruct a reader.

Seemed to me important in writing about people to be able to describe the sexual transactions between them. It's - for many people it's the height of, what they see, of ecstasy and poetry is in their sexual encounters. And furthermore, personality - human personality does not end in the bedroom, but persists.

Movies are, like sharp sunlight, merciless; we do not imagine, we view.

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

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.

Government money in the arts, I fear, can only deflect artists from their responsibility to find an authentic market for their products.

The crooked little tomato branches, pulpy and pale as if made of cheap green paper, broke under the weight of so much fruit; there was something frantic in such fertility, a crying-out like that of children frantic to please.