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.

We love those who can lead us to a place we will never reach without them.

Love is simple to understand if you haven't got a mind soft and full of holes. It's a crutch, that's all, and there isn't any one of us that doesn't need a crutch.

Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.

In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.

Amateurs... venture into scenes that a writer with more experience (and more professional concern) would bypass or eschew altogether.

A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.