With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence.

Art attempts to find in the universe, in matter as well as in the facts of life, what is fundamental, enduring, essential.

A writer is a reader moved to emulation.

...chaos doesn't run the whole show.

But she's a nut, and nuts win.

A writer is in the broadest sense a spokesman of his community. Through him that community comes to know its heart. Without such knowledge, how long can it survive?

Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.