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

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" 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. "

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" I didn't need to write historical epics, no, or science fiction, though I read a lot of science fiction as a kid and rather liked it. But I didn't have the mentality. "

" All love comes from the family. "

" I never really made a choice to live in America, so I should be aware of the social strata outside of the ones that I may live in. "

" Gods don't answer letters. "

" We don't really want to think that the artist is only very skilled, that he has merely devoted his life to perfecting a certain set of intelligible skills. "

" Belief, like love, must be voluntary. "

" I was an only child. I needed an alternative to family life - to real life, you could almost say - and cartoons, pictures in a book, the animated movies, seemed to provide it. "

" I've always tried to write about America. It's very worth a writer's effort. "

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" For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do, they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities. "

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

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

" As movers and the moved both know, books are heavy freight, the weight of refrigerators and sofas broken up into cardboard boxes. They make us think twice about changing addresses. "

" Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them. "

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

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

" There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't. "

" Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better. "

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

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

" I like short stories. "

" My transition from wanting to be a cartoonist to wanting to be a writer may have come about through that friendly opposition, that even-handed pairing, of pictures and words. "

" I see no intrinsic reason why a doubly talented artist might not arise and create a comic-strip novel masterpiece. "

" Old age treats freelance writers pretty gently. "

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