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" 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. "

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

" Smaller than a breadbox, bigger than a TV remote, the average book fits into the human hand with a seductive nestling, a kiss of texture, whether of cover cloth, glazed jacket, or flexible paperback. "

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

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

" We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one. "

" America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm trying to get the terrorist out of the bugaboo category and into the category of a fellow human being. "

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

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

" The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop. "

" Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works. "

" My father taught only math. "

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

" In a city like New York, you're aware of the rich and poor. "

" A seventeenth-century house tends to be short on frills like hallways and closets; you must improvise. "

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

" There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life. "

" 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. "

" People are incorrigibly themselves. "

" The writers we tend to universally admire, like Beckett, or Kafka, or TS Eliot, are not very prolific. "

" There should always be something gratuitous about art, just as there seems to be, according to the new-wave cosmologists, something gratuitous about the universe. "

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