“If there's one thing I can't stand, it's somebody doing something beca...” — Leslie Fiedler Quote

“If there's one thing I can't stand, it's somebody doing something because I pushed them in that direction.”

“Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel.”

“When somebody asks me what I do, I don't think I'd say critic. I say writer.”

“Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction.”

“I'm inspired by the poets, so I'm always going to give in that direction, rather than in any other. It's the making of me... and also the downfall of me.”

“We actually believe in hope. But hope requires purpose. And purpose requires direction.”