I Have, I Admit, A Low Tolerance

There Are Things In American Culture That Want To Wipe The Class Distinction. Blue Jeans. Ready-made Clothes. Coca-cola.

Delillo Never Seems Committed To Me To What He Is Writing. Very Nice Surfaces, But He's Got Nothing Underneath.

One More Recent Novelist To Come Along Is Cormac Mccarthy. Him, I Like.

The Reason Saul Bellow Doesn't Talk To Me Anymore Is Because He Knows His New Novels Are Not Worth Reading.

I Never Met Anybody In My Life Who Says, I Want To Be A Critic. People Want To Be A Fireman, Poet, Novelist.