People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature.

One of the biggest problems in literature is the lack of subtlety.

For a country boy, poor as I was, whose constant worry was to be able to have enough to eat, the Army guaranteed one's survival.

I am also well aware that literature only has a minimal influence on political disputes or economic crises in the world, but its significance to human beings is ancient.

A writer should always bravely face life, risking death and mutilation in order to dethrone an emperor.

When someone forces me to do something I don't do it.

When I write, I try to represent the ordinary person in the pew, which means that, ironically, I'm qualified to write about prayer by being unqualified!