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" A house, having been willfully purchased and furnished, tells us more than a body, and its description is a foremost resource of the art of fiction. "

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" When I went away to college, I marveled at the wealth of bookstores around Harvard Square. "

" A number of American colleges are willing to pay a tempting amount to pinch and poke an author for a day or two. "

" My golf is so delicate, so tenuously wired together with silent inward prayers, exhortations and unstable visualizations, that the sheer pressure of an additional pair of eyes crumbles the whole rickety structure into rubble. "

" A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world. "

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

" The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness. "

" I should mention something that nobody ever thinks about, but proofreading takes a lot of time. After you write something, there are these proofs that keep coming, and there's this panicky feeling that 'This is me and I must make it better.' "

" Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered. "

" My actinic keratosis is a result of the triumphalism of the beach. The sun exacerbates it. "

" For a long time, I was under the impression that 'Terry and the Pirates' was the best comic strip in the United States. "

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

" In leaving New York in 1957, I did leave without regret the literary demimonde of agents and would-be's and with-it nonparticipants; this world seemed unnutritious and interfering. "

" The cinema has done more for my spiritual life than the church. My ideas of fame, success and beauty all originate from the big screen. Whereas Christian religion is retreating everywhere and losing more and more influence; film has filled the vacuum and supports us with myths and action-controlling images. "

" We are most alive when we're in love. "

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

" Writing makes you more human. "

" The rich - they just live in another realm, really. "

" In my first 15 or 20 years of authorship, I was almost never asked to give a speech or an interview. The written work was supposed to speak for itself, and to sell itself, sometimes even without the author's photograph on the back flap. "

" Golf at its measured pace permits an electric excess of mental activity. "

" An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause. "

" All love comes from the family. "

" I think you remember certain phrases from bad reviews. You don't remember all the bad reviews. "

" For whatever crispness and animation my writing has I give some credit to the cartoonist manque. "

" Belief, like love, must be voluntary. "

" For some of us, books are intrinsic to our sense of personal identity. "

" Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man. "

" Tiger Woods did not always win majors with ease; after his narrow victory in the 1999 PGA, he slumped and sighed as if he'd been carrying rocks uphill all afternoon. "

" The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all. "

" If the worst comes true, and the paper book joins the papyrus scroll and parchment codex in extinction, we will miss, I predict, a number of things about it. "