'I'm looking for the novelists whose writing is an extension of their intellect rather than an extension of their neurosis.'

'Things. Cosas. Things attach themselves like leeches to the human soul, then they bleed out the sweetness and the music and the primordial joy of being unencu…

'Nobody can say the word 'naked' as nakedly as Cohen.'

'Accept that you're a pimple and try to keep a lively sense of humor about it. That way lies grace - and maybe even glory'

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to i…

What life means to me is to put the content of Shelley into the form of Zola. The proletarian writer is a writer with a purpose; he thinks no more of 'art for …

This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a g…