"The wind shows us how close to the edge we are"

"Writers are always selling somebody out."

"Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price."

"The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs."

"Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than th…"

"One thing you will note about shopping-center theory is that you could have thought of it yourself, and a course in i…"

"We tell ourselves stories in order to live."

"A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes …"

"Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive …"

"In many ways, writing is the act of saying I, of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying listen to me, see it m…"