"Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a boo..." — Thomas Wolfe

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best.

A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use nothing.

Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.