Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.
From John Cheever
Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.
I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.
All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.
The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.
Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.
Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.
People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.
Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
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