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A whole generation of writers dined out on the dialectic between origi...  
Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.  
His father, Vincent, took him to La Coupole in Paris and, after sittin...  
If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's gr...  
It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are...  
Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sente...  
People have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friend...  
Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.  
Ruefulness is one of the classical tones of American fiction. It foste...  
She was a spendthrift of the spirit, an American in Paris when, as Eve...  
The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start o...  
The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundre...  
The midnight snack of a life in its 70s.  
The more I like a book, the more reluctant I am to turn the page. Love...  
The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talki...  
The tension between "yes" and "no," between "I can" and "I cannot," ma...  
There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a ba...  
There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedienc...  
To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbe...  
We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.  
When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole worl...