I like that people who are not experts can not only understand but get engaged by my work. I like that Joe Paterno can read me. Bill Bradley.

Kafka is still unrecognized. He thought he was a comic writer.

All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.

Jane Austen is at the end of the line that begins with Samuel Richardson, which takes wonder and magic out of the novel, treats not the past but the present.

I like that people who are not experts can not only understand but get engaged by my work. I like that Joe Paterno can read me. Bill Bradley.

I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist.

The black situation has changed. They finally realized they're Americans.