You tasted it. Isn't that enough? Of what do you ever get more than a taste? That's all we're given in life, that's all we're given of life. A taste. There is no more.

I think I write or publish as much as I do because I can bear being without a book to work on.

Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts.

You cannot observe people through an ideology. Your ideology observes for you.

Doctor doctor, what do you say, lets put the id back in yid

How Far back must we go to discover the beginning of trouble?

Nothing bad can happen to a writer. Everything is material.