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

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.

I liked Camille Paglia. I liked her even better when I heard her talk.

We can only testify about what we have seen: the signs and wonders of God. So that others may desire to seek the Holy One.

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

Repentance is not something God demands of you before He will take you back and which He could let you off if He chose; it is simply a description of what going back is like.

the less you had, the more careful you had to be about everything you did have.

It's that enthusiasm, that passion for what you're doing, that is most important.

Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have paid close attention to higher education.

Love points the way. Desire is its ignorant advisor.

But guys such as Allen and William are more supportive than most men.

The human dilemma is this: God is Holy and we are not. God is Righteous and we are not.

Everything you want to be, do or have comes from love.