Yevgeny Yevtushenko: 'You atheist?' "Kingsley Amis: 'Well, yes, but it's more that I hate him.

Being American is, I think, a very difficult thing in art, because all the elements are European.

It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start life as children.

If there's one word that sums up everything that's gone wrong since the war, it's Workshop. After Youth, that is.

Whatever part drink may play in the writer's life, it must play none in his or her work.

I was never an Angry Young Man. I am angry only when I hit my thumb with a hammer.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko: 'You atheist?' "Kingsley Amis: 'Well, yes, but it's more that I hate him.