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.

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

You imagine a reader and try to keep the reader interested. That's storytelling. You also hope to reward the reader with a sense of a completed design, that somebody is in charge, and that while life is pointless, the book isn't pointless. The author knows where he is going. That's form.

Let us not mock God with metaphor, Analogy, sidestepping, transcendence; Making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the Faded credulity of earlier ages: Let us walk through the door.

What you haven't done by thirty you're not likely to do. What you have done you'll do lots more.

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.

From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.