"We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next." — Saul Bellow

With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence.

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.

In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.

Conquered people tend to be witty.