"Pure herring oil is the port wine of English cats"

“We've been so disconnected agriculturally and culturally from food. We spend more time on dieting than on cooking.”

“Writing a first draft is like groping one's way into a dark room, or overhearing a faint conversation, or telling a joke whose punchline you've forgotten. As someone said, one writes mainly to rewrite, for rewriting and revising are how one's mind comes to inhabit the material fully.”

Source : Ted Solotaroff (2008). “The Literary Community: Selected Essays : 1967-2007”

“In my heart, I know I'm just as talented as some of my idols.”

Source : "Donnis Talks 'Fashionably Late,' Atlantic Debut & Texting With T.I". Interview with Jordan Martins, www.complex.com. June 24, 2010.

“Peace means loyalty to self. ... And loyalty to one's self means never a gap between thought, speech, act.”

Source : Personal Quotes, m.imdb.com.

“There seems to be a tremendous desire among many people now to know authors and how they work, to know what's autobiographical and what isn't.”

“The short story feels like the most natural length for prose fiction, or certainly for the kind of ideas and situations I like to encounter.”

“Nuclear weapons are to be worried about only when they're in the hands of Ronald Reagan - not so much when they're in the hands of a Third World anti-imperialist like Saddam Hussein. Can't you see?”

“Greenspan's policies have created huge amounts of wealth for Arizona.”