I have never believed that one should wait until one is inspired because I think the pleasures of not writing are so great that if you ever start indulging them you will never write again.

Hemingway describes literary New York as a bottle full of tapeworms trying to feed on each other.

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

Smaller than a breadbox, bigger than a TV remote, the average book fits into the human hand with a seductive nestling, a kiss of texture, whether of cover cloth, glazed jacket, or flexible paperback.

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.

Many men are more faithful to their golf partners than to their wives and have stuck with them longer.

Pressed, I would define spirituality as the shadow of light humanity casts as it moves through the darkness of everything that can be explained.