The Historian Will Tell You What Happened.

A New Reader Shouldn't Be Able To Find You In Your Work, Though Someone Who's Read More May Begin To.

If You Feel A Bump On Page One Hundred, It May Be You Went Off On Page Fifty.

It Is The Immigrant Hordes Who Keep This Country Alive, The Waves Of Them Arriving Year After Year.... Who Believes In America More Than The People Who Run Down The Gangplank And Kiss The Ground?

A Novel Is A Printed Circuit Through Which Flows The Force Of A Reader's Own Life.

I Have Committed Many Sins In My Life. This Precise Sin-the Sin Against Poets-is Without Absolution.