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

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" Imagine writing a poem with a sweating, worried-looking boy handing you a different pencil at the end of every word. My golf, you may say, is no poem; nevertheless, I keep wanting it to be one. "

" If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money. "

" 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. "

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

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

" There's something very reassuring... about the written record. "

" 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. "

" It's sort of good to see your vocation as a daily task and have fairly modest expectations for financial or reward in other coin - glory, love, whatever. "

" 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. "

" Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn. "

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" The first author I met socially was Joyce Cary. "

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

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" To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I don't write about too many male businessmen, and I'm not apt to write about too many female businessmen. "

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" I don't know; I think I'd be gloomy without some faith that there is a purpose and there is a kind of witness to my life. "

" John Barth, I think, was really a writer of my own age and somewhat of my own temperament, although his books are very different from mine, and he has been a spokesman for the very ambitious, long, rather academic novel. But I don't think that what he is saying, so far as I understand it, is so very different from what I'm saying. "

" 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. "

" New York, like the Soviet Union, has this universal usefulness: It makes you glad you live elsewhere. "