My Favorite Short-story Writer Is John Cheever

My Views Naturally Have Mellowed. Most Of The Critics Have Been More Or Less Nice To Me

Horror Would Not Annoy A Soldier Any More Than The Sight Of A Hammer Annoys A Carpenter. It Is Sentimental To Pretend That Horror Is Not The Tool Of The Soldier, Just As The Hammer Is The Tool Of The Carpenter. We Live Off Death And The Threat Of Death And We Must Take It Calmly And Use It Well.... Eventually I Came To Enjoy Killing, As A Pianist Enjoys The Czerny Which Keeps His Fingers Limber For The Beethoven.

I'm Not As Hopeful As I Was When I Was Young

I Don't Think That The Writer Is Regarded As A Freak By Americans

In The Theater, Characters Have To Cut The Umbilical Cord From The Writer And Talk In Their Own Voices