Writing enlarges the landscape of the mind.
There is more magic in sin if it is not committed.
The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life.
The wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the novel.
A natural New Yorker is a native of the present tense.
Because of the influence of the cinema, most reports or stories of violence are so pictorial that they lack content or meaning. The camera brings them to our eyes, but does not settle them in our minds, nor in time.