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

We have an absolute right in a democracy to argue about a war.

What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.

Only another writer can know how much damage writing a novel can do to you. It's an unnatural activity to sit at a desk and squeeze words out of yourself.

I no longer gave a sick dog's drop for the wisdom, the reliability and the authority of the public's literary mind, those creeps and old ladies of vested reviewing.

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

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.