We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives.

Rice Krispies happens to be one of my favorite junk foods, just as I regard Michener as superior among junk writers.

What they have in common is that if the reviewer did not already possess them, he would long for them most greedily.

There's an enormous difference between being a critic and a reviewer. The reviewer reacts to the experience of that book.

The beginning of a plot is the prompting of desire.

There is no medical proof that television causes brain damage - at least from over five feet away. In fact, TV is probably the least physically harmful of all the narcotics known to man.