“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.”

“What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power.”

“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.”