Book-publishing is all about politics. Agents, editors, which books will be puffed, which ignored, etc.

It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.

There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.

September: it was the most beautiful of words, he’d always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret.

Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used the dictionary before you read it.

I hate injustice, I despise inequity, I condemn hypocrisy, I abhor the lack of reason.

Where there is no style, there is in effect no point of view. There is, essentially, no anger, no conviction, no self. Style is opinion, hung washing, the caliber of a bullet, teething beads.

Why should a blacksmith put his hands in the fire if he has tongs?

Yellow is vagueness and luminousness, both.

Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.

One's style holds one, thankfully, at bay from the enemies of it but not from the stupid crucifixions by those who must willfully misunderstand it.

My best days are Monday through Friday, and Saturday and Sunday." "Ian, " Wesley noted, "that covers the whole week." Ian nods his head. "Pretty much.

Lawrence will go on burying his own undertakers.

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

Because I tend to kind of hide under the sheets when it comes to reality television. I've seen probably one episode of maybe five different shows, and that's about it.

If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.

It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper, the different civilizations were brought into being by the different revelations.

It's already 95 degrees outside. Mississippi got the most unorganized weather in the nation.

I listen a lot to the incredible young artists who are coming through, which is something that just wasn't possible during Apartheid. That's the way I learn.

My best work is always done... when I'm experimenting. If I stop experimenting I feel it just becomes a drudgery.

Most persons who indulge in second thought don't do much thinking when the subject is presented for first thought.