"Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power." — William Gaddis

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.

There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.