"I think a writer's job is to tell the truth. And the truth is not always pretty."

"The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story."

"To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness."

"We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings."

"An unfree mind is a mind that has been taught to believe in what is untrue."