Art Doesn't Exist If You Just Do

Men Are Competent In Groups That Mimic The Playground, Incompetent In Groups That Mimic The Family

Novelists Of A Conservative Or More Purely Aesthetic Bent Hold Up Better On The Surface, But Their Novels Go In And Out Of Fashion According To Relevance Or Irrelevance.

The One Thing ... Maybe No Family Could Tolerate Was Things Coming Out Into The Open.

The Main Thing About The Novel That Is Totally Fascinating: It's Not Possessed By The Writer; It's Possessed By The Reader.

Like Most Of The Educated, I Do Harbor A Fondness For The Sins Of My Ignorant Past.