Misery don't call ahead. That's why you have to stay awake - otherwise it just walks on in your door.

Would it be all right? Would it be all right to go ahead and feel? Go ahead and count on something?

All art is knowing when to stop.

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

Maybe [I care about language] because I'm an editor, maybe because I'm picky, but it's all we got, don't shrink it. Don't dumb it out, make it little.

Racism will disappear when it's no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it'll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.

Lonely was much better than alone.