The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.

Whether my columns are worth reading isn't for me to say.

Saul Bellow never took my advice when he was my friend.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

I don't read anything anymore. I don't have the eyesight. I read my own copy, that's all. I think I've read everything that's worth reading.

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.