The contradictory remarks of politicians are forgotten; the more asinine predictions of pundits are buried with mercy.

There`s a tendency for Americans, particularly the simpler you are, the more you believe in the president as the kind of person to be.

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

People who are greedy have extraordinary capacities for waste-they must, they take in too much.

The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.

Every one of my books had killed me a little more.

A book of great beauty and manically exquisite insight with a wild and deadly humor . . . The only American novelist who may conceivably be possessed by genius.