Insanity consists of building major structures upon foundations which do not exist..

Being a real writer means being able to do the work on a bad day..

The only faithfulness people have is to emotions they're trying to recapture.

Faction is that hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration..

Prevarication, like honesty, is reflexive, and soon becomes a sturdy habit, as reliable as truth..

The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution in the soul..

The mark of mediocrity is to look for precedent..

Along with all else, Sandman is a comic strip for intellectuals, and I say it's about time..

The true religion of America has always been America..

A high church for the true mediocre..

Amateurs... venture into scenes that a writer with more experience (and more professional concern) would bypass or eschew altogether..

Every time a story about me appears in a newspaper, I am injured professionally..

The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again; it has perhaps not been here so intensely in thirty years, not since the Nazis were p….

Khomeini has offered us the opportunity to regain our frail religion ... faith in the power of words..

When the time comes, they won't ask what kind of a Jew you are..

If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a….

Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be….

A book of great beauty and manically exquisite insight with a wild and deadly humor . . . The only American novelist who may conceivably be possessed….

Cancer is the growth of madness denied..

The night before I left Las Vegas I walked out in the desert to look at the moon. There was a jeweled city on the horizon, spires rising in the night….

Everything wrong with America led to the point where the country built that tower of Babel, which consequently had to be destroyed. And then came the….