Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature.
I want to save my soul, that timid wind.
Salter is a writer who particularly rewards those for whom reading is an intense pleasure. He is among the very few North American writers all of whose work I want to read, whose as-yet-unpublished books I wait for impatiently.
When comedy fails, seriousness begins to leak back in.