It's so wrong when I pick up a new edition of Huckleberry Finn and I look at the last page and it doesn't say, Yours truly, at the end.

Así, pues, le dije:
—Ya sabes, Tom, que no sirvo ni para limpiarte los zapatos. Pero no importa: Dios todopoderoso nos ha creado a todos y a unos los ha dejado ciegos mientras que a otros les ha dado los ojos para verlo todo. Me parece que yo no figuro entre estos últimos; pero sin duda está bien así, puesto que es Dios quien lo ha querido.

I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies.

The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.

It is a pledge that senility has not the last say in everything.

I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist.