The short story is the literature of the nomad.

A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.

It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

That's the way I remember them, heading for an exit.

Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.

Art is the triumph over chaos.

Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.

I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.

Then it is dark; it is a night where kings in golden suits ride elephants over the mountains.

Adopted. Big Deal

To innovate is not to reform.

Blood is just red sweat.

I'm convinced that our duty to provide advice and consent for justices of the Supreme Court is our most important constitutional responsibility.

You're working on being a father, so that is something that when you experience it you'll understand the profundity of wanting to protect something dear to you.

The rule on staying alive as a forecaster is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once.

As soon as you give your heart to something new you will immediately be able to think in a way that is new.

If I hold onto something it's because I want it not because I want to display it or show it to somebody else. I've got some cool stuff, I've got some cool things.

Vera Stark is a fabulous force of nature.

Being brought up in a culture is a matter of learning appropriate forms of feeling as much as particular ways of thinking.