"Beckett’s pessimism makes Greene’s pessimism look amateurish."

"We are all engaged in looting the past. (Only the greatest geniuses manage to steal from the future.)"

"To say that the publishing world is not interested in literature is to overstate it. They are extremely interested in…"

"I have said this too many times to make it interesting even to myself, but the principle of collage is one of the cen…"

"...he wouldn’t know what to do with a moral if handed one by the archangel Michael on a flaming sword."

"Charm, as Goethe said, is the dead green bug on the golden leaf of occasion."

"Any fool can cry wolf; to cry sheep is inspired, the work of a subtle, contradancing mind."

"Every writer in the country can write a beautiful sentence, or a hundred. What I am interested in is the ugly sentenc…"

"...there is a realm of possible knowledge which can be reached by artists, which is not susceptible of mathematical v…"

"“Humor is the great alternative to psychosis,” Gregory Bateson has remarked. It is clear that there was no comedy bef…"