In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is.

I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.

Growing has no connection with audience. Audience has no connection with identity. Identity has no connection with a universe. A universe has no connection wit…

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that th…

I like Houston. It's the last great 19th-century city. Houston has a spirit about it that is truly American, an optimism. People there aren't afraid to try som…

The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the ancient …