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" A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience. "

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" Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. "

" What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit. "

" I still want to give my public, such as it is, a book a year. "

" When you sit at your desk, if you're lucky, there's a moment when you feel empowered to be someone or something else, to leap into another skin. "

" Does fiction, artistic writing, have much of a future? I must say it's on the way out. "

" Toni Morrison has a habit, perhaps traceable to the pernicious influence of William Faulkner, of plunging into the narrative before the reader has a clue to what is going on. "

" That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds. "

" Reagan has turned America into a tax haven. "

" I feel old only when I look at my hands or at myself in the mirror. "

" Mars has long exerted a pull on the human imagination. The erratically moving red star in the sky was seen as sinister or violent by the ancients: The Greeks identified it with Ares, the god of war; the Babylonians named it after Nergal, god of the underworld. To the ancient Chinese, it was Ying-huo, the fire planet. "

" Arabic is very twisting, very beautiful. The call to prayer is quite haunting; it almost makes you a believer on the spot. "

" Some golfers, we are told, enjoy the landscape; but properly, the landscape shrivels and compresses into the grim, surrealistically vivid patch of grass directly under the golfer's eyes as he morosely walks toward where he thinks his ball might be. "

" It's so hard to make a good tee shot after a birdie. "

" I picked up 'On Moral Fiction' in the bookstore and looked up myself in the index, but I didn't read it through. I try not to read things that depress me. "

" Fiction is burdened for me with a sense of duty. "

" Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner. "

" The writer must face the fact that ordinary lives are what most people live most of the time, and that the novel as a narration of the fantastic and the adventurous is really an escapist plot; that aesthetically, the ordinary, the banal, is what you must deal with. "

" Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. "

" I was raised in the Depression, when there was a great sense of dog-eat-dog and people fighting over scraps. "

" I think books should have secrets, like people do. "

" I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but on the other hand I'm a littler, wiser, dare we say? The word 'wisdom' has kind of faded out of our vocabulary, but yeah, I'm a little wiser. "

" What interests me is why men think of women as witches. It's because they're so fascinating and exasperating, so other. "

" In tennis, there is the forehand, the backhand, the overhead smash and the drop volley, all with a different grip. "

" Without books, we might just melt into the airwaves and be just another set of blips. "

" I have never liked haircuts. "

" I don't think women are dumb. "

" I think my first story sold for $550. This was in 1954, and it seemed like quite a lot of money, and I said to myself, 'Hey, I'm a professional writer now.' "

" I like short stories. "