It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common humanity.

I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.

She's no flibberti-gibberti mamzell, but a whir-stir-get-lost-sir bundla dynamite!

This was an age before e-books. We all knew that the only way you can allow a book to survive in print in the long term is in paperback. The hardback has a certain life, and then it stops having that. It stops selling, and if you want the book to just stay around there has to be a paperback edition. So if there were not a paperback edition the book would eventually disappear from the shelves, and we would have lost the battle.

I know who I am, I know what I'm for, and I know what I'm willing to fight for.

American literature has always been immigrant.

Prophet Mohammed would have no objection to The Satanic Verses.