Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.

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.

You have the right to speak your mind.

There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements.

God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so.

To be married to a good woman is to live with tender surprise.

Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego.