Political correctness and so many of the political fashions of the day...could only be perpetrated in adolescent minds: minds, that is, that are trained to search out one thing and one thing only...Only an adolescent would find it worthwhile to devote his or her attention chiefly to the hunting of offenses, the possibility of slights, real and imagined.

The problem for me is that reading is, I won't say a sacred, but nevertheless a pretty serious act.

A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself and does a damned impressive job of it.

I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy.

I think the story is my form.

For me writing is foremost a mode of thinking and when it works well, an act of discovery

Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food.