I must say, when I reread myself, it's the poetry I tend to look at. It's the most exciting to write, and it's over the quickest.
Tall as he is, there is no carrying the slope under his shirt as anything other than a loose gut, a paunch that in itself must weigh as much as a starving Ethiopian child.
Nelson! Stop that this minute! She turns rigid in the glider but does not rise to see what is making the boy cry. Eccles, sitting by the screen, can see. The Fosnacht boy stands by the swing, holding...
The affair between Boston and Ted Williams has been no mere summer romance; it has been a marriage, composed of spats, mutual disappointments, and, toward the end, a mellowing hoard of shared memories...
When he was about twelve or thirteen he walked into his parents' bedroom in the half-house on Jackson Road not expecting his father to be there, and the old man was standing in front of his bureau in...
Teddy was reminded of Paterson, but that polyglot population had appeared healthier, more hopeful, the American mood more fertile then in its promises, and the streets of Silk City with their little y...
The difficulty with humourists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't whichever seems likelier to win an effect.
Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors.
Sex is like money only too much is enough.
They’ve not forgotten him: worse, they never heard of him.
Growth is betrayal.
Perhaps we meet our heaven at the start and not the end of life.
What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.
What I'm going to do is pry every stinking tag off these f.ing chairs and make a f.ing collar and throw that cat right in Connor's puked-up face. Pale turd.
It's been the same story ever since I can remember, ever since Wilson – the Republicans don't do a thing for the little man.
What you haven't done by thirty you're not likely to do. What you have done you'll do lots more.
I never heard enough damnation from your pulpit. Many mornings I had to strain to take hold of what you were saying, Reverend. I couldn't figure it out, and got dizzy listening, the way you were dodgi...
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.