The businessman who is a novelist is able to drop in on literature and feel no suicidal loss of esteem if the lady is not at home, and he can spend his life preparing without fuss for the awful interview.

I shall never be as old as I was between 20 and 30.

The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.

It is less the business of the novelist to tell us what happened than to show how it happened.

A natural New Yorker is a native of the present tense.

It is exciting and emancipating to believe we are one of nature's latest experiments, but what if the experiment is unsuccessful?

All writers - all people - have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half-forgotten, often violent toys on the floor of memory.