Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That was incredible.

There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola.

Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel.

I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.

I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake.

Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein.

The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than the sociological, psychological, historical, anthropological or generic.

Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate.

I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis.

My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.

The black situation has changed. They finally realized they're Americans.

Why don't you try something really different and be the same person two days in a row?

Ask yourself: If I can't avoid it, change it, or make it go away, what if I changed my response to it? What if I decided to stop letting it bother me?

Whenever a situation develops to its extreme, it is bound to turn around and become its opposite.

The vertical and the horizontal are the extreme signs available to man for touching the beyond and his inwardness.

There's a right thing to do," Holden said. "You don't have a right thing, friend," Miller said. "You've got a whole plateful of maybe a little less wrong.

When a person gets right with God, my eyes are upward...I'm poor in spirit. I'm spiritually bankrupt.

As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme

As Christians living in changing times, we must keep three things open: our heads, our hearts, and our Bibles.

Stand tall and believe in yourself

What twelve year old wouldn't want to play an evil wizard?