I think I would have written five times as much as I've written if I didn't have this terrible sense of perfection.

Home is where you feel at home. I'm still looking.

Shoot, boy, the country's just fulla folks what knows everything, and don't understand nothing, just fullofem.

New York is a diamond iceberg floating in river water.

If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there's no point in it....for me, every act of the art of solving a mystery.

All literature is gossip.

She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox. In this case, as opposed to the scrupulous method of good taste and scientific grooming, the trick had been worked by exaggerating defects; she'd made them ornamental by admitting them boldly.