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

Cooper wrote a novel which is absolutely indistinguishable from Austen, completely from a female point of view, completely English, no sense that he was an American.

Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read Kaddish.

When I was 12 years old, someone took me to see Martha Graham. It was nothing like what I thought of as serious dancing and even then I knew I was having a great experience. It was as if somebody was moving through space like no one ever did before.

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

I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis.

When all of us are forgotten, people will still be remembering Stephen King.