What is worst about America was acted out. What is best in America doesn't export.
Everybody's after a new morning. What do we have to run up and salute tomorrow?
The lessons I learned that were most important were the ones that hurt my feelings.
The things that you know more about than you want to know are very useful.
There’s only one subject for fiction or poetry or even a joke: how it is. In all the arts, the payoff is always the same: recognition. If it works, you say that’s real, that’s truth, that’s life, that’s the way things are. ‘There it is.’
That's the great thing about literature -- it makes the world less lonely.