"We face threats to freedom of expression if we are unable or unwilling to rise to the challenge of freedom of express…"

"I oscillate between loathing Vladimir Nabokov ’s novels (when I think he’s showing off or insisting on making his pre…"

"I wrote the Light of What We Know here ..(at Yaddo), over several long stays. I'm not sure where I would have written…"

"...there is a virtue attached to intelligence, but lets suppose that we are all intelligent enough to know that intel…"

"Life can only be understood backward; the trouble is, it has to be lived forward."

"We shore up our prejudices with selected facts..."

"'An exile is a refugee with a library!'"

"I think of the whole of the city, the people who inhabit its halls, who sleep now and breathe its recycled air and wh…"

"Spread along the platform was a mass of bobbing black hair like a long wave of silk. Suddenly I felt the first stirri…"

"When we encounter a face, we view it as a whole, by a process of integration of the parts, which takes place, as some…"