It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway.

To be a mainstream American is to live as an oxymoron. You are a good Christian, but you strain to remain dynamically competitive.

It's probably a good idea because he probably knows everything Bobby does anyway.

The platitude turned on its head is still a platitude

Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.