Writers can treat their mental illnesses every day..

There is this thing called the university, and everybody goes there now. And there are these things called teachers who make students read this book ….

No art is possible without a dance with death..

That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes..

Well, there was stuff going on, heroic events. One was what used to be, and probably still is, the largest moving project in history. The headquarter….

I love cell phones. I see people so happy and proud, walking around. Gesturing, you know. I'm like Karl Marx, I'm up for anything that makes people h….

I think that scientific persons of the future will scoff at scientific persons of the present. They will scoff because scientific persons of the pres….

It's a small world. When you put it in a cemetery, it is..

Also, I think that, you know, it's tribal behavior. I don't think that Pat Robertson, for instance, doubts that we evolved. He is simply representing….

What we will be seeking... for the rest of our lives will be large, stable communities of like-minded people, which is to say relatives. They no long….

The person who writes the bank's commercials is not the person who makes the loans..

When I worked with General Electric, again this was soon after the Second World War, you know, I was keeping up with new developments and they showed….

I've written about Powers Hapgood. He was a Harvard graduate, son of a wealthy family who owned a cannery out there. After leaving Harvard, he went t….

To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life..

Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over it again painstakingly, fixing everything that i….

The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought..

I think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has something on his mind other than the history of literature so far. Literatur….

Our classes were relatively small. Those small classes can feel like family. After a class in French or chemistry or whatever, we'd be talking in the….

I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine..

Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was d….

I wasn't aware of Ku Klux Klan as I was aware of the widespread assumption that African-Americans were dumber than white people. I think my father be….