The fact that we still live well cannot ease the feeling that we no longer live nobly.

It's been the same story ever since I can remember, ever since Wilson - the Republicans don't do a thing for the little man.

I was made to feel I could do things. If you get this feeling early and can hold it until you're 15, you tend to never lose it.

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

The illusion is an agreement between the reader and writer that this [story] will be like life. The emotional temperature drops when you have footnotes.

The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing up as if the fun's just started.

New York is of course many cities, and an exile does not return to the one he left.