I Have No Literary Fears.

Don't Classify Me, Read Me. I'm A Writer, Not A Genre.

Diplomacy In A Sense Is The Opposite Of Writing. You Have To Disperse Yourself So Much: The Lady Who Comes In Crying Because Shes Had A Fight With The Secretary; Exports And Imports; Students In Trouble; Thumbtacks For The Embassy.

For Me, Life Without Literature Is Inconceivable. I Think That Don Quixote In A Physical Sense Never Existed, But Don Quixote Exists More Than Anybody Who Existed In 1605. Much More. There's Nobody Who Can Compete With Don Quixote Or With Hamlet. So In The End We Have The Reality Of The Book As The Reality Of The World And The Reality Of History.

In The Name Of Certainty, The Greatest Crimes Have Been Committed Against Humanity.

What America Does Best Is To Understand Itself. What It Does Worst Is To Understand Others.