People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.

Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.

For me a page of good prose is where one hears the rain. A page of good prose is when one hears the noise of battle.... A page of good prose seems to me the most serious dialogue that well-informed and intelligent men and women carry on today in their endeavor to make sure that the fires of this planet burn peaceably.

Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.

The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.