Never be ashamed of your subject, and of your passion for your subject.

To be knocked out doesn't mean what it seems. A boxer does not have to get up.

The only people who claim that money is not important are people who have enough money so that they are relieved of the ugly burden of thinking about it.

A lawyer is basically a mouth, like a shark is a mouth attached to a long gut. The business of lawyers is to talk, to interrupt one another, and to devour each other if possible.

I don't think that any 'ism' is higher than literature or art. So I'm a formalist. I greatly honor and respect the form of a work.

For what are the words with which to summarize a lifetime, so much crowded confused happiness terminated by such stark slow-motion pain?

Art does the same things dreams do. We have a hunger for dreams and art fulfills that hunger. So much of real life is a disappointment. That's why we have art.