I Hire Tea By The Tea Bag.

America Still Is The Center Of The World, And What Happens In The American Economy Matters Everywhere.

It Sounds Schmaltzy To Say, But Fiction Is Much More To Do With Love Than People Admit Or Acknowledge. The Novelist Has To Not Only Love His Characters - Which You Do, Without Even Thinking About It, Just As You Love Your Children. But Also To Love The Reader, And That's What I Mean By The Pleasure Principle.

At Its Grandest, Political Correctness Is An Attempt To Accelerate Evolution.

The Uruguayans Have A Sort Of Purity. I Don't Know Where They Got It, And I Doubt Even If They Know From Where They Got It. Perhaps They Didn't Kill Off Their Major Population.

It's Hard To Make Progress With Grief.