Beliefs: Those things we hold to be true despite evidence to the contrary.
Everything is in the way the material is composed.
(The short story) is a form that has all the power of the novel - some would say more - but none of the self-importance.
There is nothing worse than the ambitions of a talentless person.
If you do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got. If what you are doing is not working, do something else.
Politics' the polite word for antediluvian prejudices, the rags put on by enmity and tribal resentment.