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"I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth."
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"It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before."

"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."

"When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up."

"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."

"Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted."
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"I judged about a zillion awards this year so I've been reading a lot of books that just came out."


"Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that."


"But that incessant drive to be out there in the literary universe that was important to me when I was in my twenties, like going to a Paris Review party or whatever, that seems totally irrelevant now."


"This is odd, but there are certain things that are really embarrassing to talk about - one is my job and the success that I've had in it, and the other is money."


"I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity."


"All the stuff that I used to treat with contempt - you know, I'm an artist, man, I don't do that family stuff - has begun to seem really important."
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