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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. "

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" Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went. "

" From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few. "

" 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. "

" Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. "

" I suppose sequels are inevitable for a writer of a certain age. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Harvard has enough panegyrists without me. "

" 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. "

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

" Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself. "

" My interest generally is the hidden Americans; the ones who live far away from the headlines. "

" In art, anything goes, and if it goes, it goes. "

" 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. "

" I seem most instinctively to believe in the human value of creative writing, whether in the form of verse or fiction, as a mode of truth-telling, self-expression and homage to the twin miracles of creation and consciousness. "

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

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

" I seem to have this need to belong to some church. I get worried on Sunday mornings. "

" I love Shillington not as one loves Capri or New York, because they are special, but as one loves one's own body and consciousness, because they are synonymous with being. "

" 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. "

" Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life. "

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

" To guarantee the individual maximum freedom within a social frame of minimal laws ensures - if not happiness - its hopeful pursuit. "

" When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas. "

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

" But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography. "

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