Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.

One thing is certain: We can't go back. The musical will never be the same as it was.

When she got back from taking Cassie to school Fancy knew that she ought to be working on her wilderness romance. She had promised thirty thousand words to her editor by tomorrow, and she had only written eleven. Specifically:
His rhinoceros smelled like a poppadom: sweaty, salty, strange and strong.
Her editor would cut that line.

Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.

I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.

He is a great artist. He may be the finest artist among American writers since William Faulkner and Henry James. There's the endless variety of modes he works in. His style, his stance, his point of view.