“All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.”

“Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.”

“Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.”

“Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.”