Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything

The reason con artists get away with what they get away with is, their victims are ashamed of their own blindness and their own gullibility, and they tend to just quietly go away.

To me, the only good reason to be touring is if you still have something good to share instead of just revisiting past glories.

Good short-story collections, like good record albums, are almost always hit-and-miss affairs - successful if they include three or four great tracks, wildly successful if they have five. And that's as it should be.

If I want to ban any newspaper, I will, with good reason.