Writing Is A Mysterious Activity.

Read A Lot. Expect Something Big, Something Exalting Or Deepening From A Book. No Book Is Worth Reading That Isn't Worth Re-reading.

In America, The Photographer Is Not Simply The Person Who Records The Past, But The One Who Invents It.

Writing Is A Little Door. Some Fantasies, Like Big Pieces Of Furniture, Won’t Come Through.

Literature Was The Passport To Enter A Larger Life; That Is, The Zone Of Freedom. Literature Was Freedom. Especially In A Time In Which The Values Of Reading And Inwardness Are So Strenuously Challenged, Literature Is Freedom.

The Public Voice In The Theater Today Is Crude And Raucous, And, All Too Often, Weak-minded.