"The market is a tool, like a plow or an axe. It is not a god."

"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."

"The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have any feelings, and then you're dead."

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."