My first-born. All I can remember of her is how she loved the burned bottom of bread. Can you beat that? Eight children and that's all I remember.

When a man angers you, he conquers you.

Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.

Being good to somebody is just like being mean to somebody. Risky. You don't get nothing for 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.

If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.

Liberation means you don't have to be silenced.