The ultimate tendency of liberalism is vegetarianism.

Along with all else, Sandman is a comic strip for intellectuals, and I say it's about time.

People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don't understand something in our past, we are therefore crippled.

To know what you want to say is not the best condition for writing a novel. Novels go happiest when you discover something you did not know you knew: an insight into one of your opaque characters, a metaphor that startles you... a truth... that used to elude you.

The sole virtue of losing your short-term memory is that it does free you to be your own editor.

The fact that we've been a great democracy doesn't mean we will automatically keep being one if we keep waving the flag.

I respect most boxers because they're violent people who learned to discipline themselves ... a good boxer is an artist ... Boxing is existential - some fights are better than others.