If you read a novel in more than two weeks, you don't read the novel really.

Oh, to be a center fielder, a center fielder- and nothing more

He was no more, freed from being, entering into nowhere without even knowing it. Just as he'd feared from the start.

When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place.

What I would really love to happen to me would be if I came upon an idea that would keep me busy until I die so I wouldn't have to go through the business of thinking up a new book. But I wouldn't mind writing a long book which is going to occupy me for the rest of my life.

Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. the illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on. What else could? As pathological phenomena go, it doesn't completely wreck your life.

To read a novel requires a certain kind of concentration, focus, devotion to the reading. If you read a novel in more than two weeks, you don't read the novel really.