Reverence is fatal to literature.
I'm a pleaser. That's my character.
Civility, it is said, means obeying the unenforceable.
The man who has no problems is out of the game.
The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.
A thief believes everybody steals.
The most destructive criticism is indifference.
Prose is architecture and the Baroque age is over.
The critic should describe, and not prescribe.
Everything that has been will be, everything that will be is, everything that will be has been.
The problem is that it is difficult to translate.
she died of internal weeping
Blush like you mean it
All of my books come from pain.
Al Qaeda is closely aligned with the Chechens.
Apes are apes, though clothed in scarlet.
Indeed there's a woundy luck in names.
The first sentence of a book is a promise.
I don't, for the record, have a Tweety Bird fetish.
The Army was my bread and butter.
Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.
