Those mausoleums of inactive masculinity are places for men who prefer armchairs to women.

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

Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.

A short story is. . .frequently the celebration of character at bursting point.

How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.

Criticism changes with the fashion of the time. A story is always a story.

Writing enlarges the landscape of the mind.