I am an old consumer of papers. I cannot avoid reading my newspapers every morning.

I've always said that I learned the English I know through two sources -- Marvel Comics and Finnegans Wake.

I believe that you can reach the point where there is no longer any difference between developing the habit of pretending to believe and developing the habit of believing.

Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another.

The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

Does the novel have to deepen the psychology of its heroes? Certainly the modern novel does, but the ancient legends did not do the same. Oedipus' psychology was deduced by Aeschylus or Freud, but the character is simply there, fixed in a pure and terribly disquieting state.

It is sometimes hard to grasp the difference between identifying with one's own roots, understanding people with other roots, and judging what is good or bad.