So Thomas Pynchon wants a private life and no photographs and nobody to know his home address. I can dig it, I can relate to that (but, like, he should try it when it's compulsory instead of a free-choice option).

Don't you know girls have to fool people every day of their lives if they want to get anywhere?

The great concern is that year after year, rising numbers of journalists are being killed in pursuit of their work. They are increasingly seen as not being neutral but rather as combatants by one side or the other.

People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.

When you know what you're against you have taken the first step to discovering what you're for.

There is no magic on earth strong enough to wipe out the legacies of one's parents.

Free speech is life itself.