It is well known that, when two authors meet, they at once start talking about money-like everyone else.

Writing enlarges the landscape of the mind.

Life — how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough.

Some writers thrive on the contact with the commerce of success; others are corrupted by it. Perhaps, like losing one's virginity,it is not as bad (or as good) as one feared it was going to be.

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

The present has its élan because it is always on the edge of the unknown and one misunderstands the past unless one remembers that this unknown was once part of its nature.