Satire Is Moral Outrage Transformed Into Comic

The Best Readers Come To Fiction To Be Free Of ... All That Isn't Fiction.

I Don't Wish To Be A Slave Any Longer To The Stringent Exigencies Of Literature.

This Is What You Know About Someone You Have To Hate: He Charges You With His Crime And Castigates Himself In You.

The Horror Of Being Caged Has Lost Its Thrill.

Writing Turns You Into Somebody Who's Always Wrong. The Illusion That You May Get It Right Someday Is The Perversity That Draws You On. What Else Could? As Pathological Phenomena Go, It Doesn't Completely Wreck Your Life.