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Among contemporaries, I hugely admire Alice Munro, our Chekhov, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and John U... 
But the young educated adults of the 90s -- who were, of course, the children of the same impassione... 
By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. 
If she’d been born at the right time they would have burned her over in Salem. 
To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth... 
I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you. 
It was really great to be part of the Philip Roth story as a woman in a very complete way. 
John Updike, in that book you gave me, he said the dead make space. Do you know what I think? Updike... 
You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. 
Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. 
As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... 
You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... 
You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. 
When people begin to define the things that they believe in, based upon the exclusion of all the thi... 
Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i... 
The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison 
He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain... 
Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... 
Daring to dream is not difficult, it's making them come true that is hard... 
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We... 
Being biracial is sort of like being in a secret society. Most people I know of that mix have a real... 
To be a success, you have to break down your wall of fear that you built around you to protect yours... 
How to be a Poet (to remind myself)
if it doesn't come bursting out of you
I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to ... 
History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... 
You must have traveled all night,” she heard herself say. 
I have the right to remain violente. Everything I say can and will be used against you. 
I love you so much, so incredibly much," he went on, "and I forget when you're close to me, I forget... 
John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another for... 
There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn... 
If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader. 
But for me, I knew that if I had a baby, I would have to take care of that baby, and I wouldn't ... 
I was enamored of New York City intellectual life and was really into Philip Roth because I was rais... 
That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Kn... 
If God give you strength and courage, don't use it to intimidate people or overpower them, rather us... 
You were with Margo Roth Spiegelman last night? At THREE A.M.? I nodded. Alone? I nodded. Oh my God,... 
To be lazy is stupid, to be a muscle machine is a crazy thing... and how far we go or father we all ... 
When a solipsist dies ... everything goes with him. 
If I get too old to write, or short-term memory loss - that was the one Philip Roth was worried abou... 
I just take rock songs and mix it with hip-hop and a little bit of R&B. 
Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you. 
He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. ... 
After Rilke's Letters
Yes, their reasons are overwhelming. They are as big as hope and as deep as revolt. They are the rea... 
…A city deprived of everything, devoid of light and devoid of heat, starved, and still not crushed... 
No, no. Don't make that face. Every time I propose to you, you make that twisty, unhappy face. It we... 
Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies. 
My last vivid boyhood fright from books came when I was 15; I was visiting my uncle and aunt in Gree... 
When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of K...