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"What genre it falls under is only of interest later."
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"I have no interest in writing, directing or producing."

"I have no interest in directing. I'd be a bad director."

"I think Elaine would go out with anyone if they showed interest in her. She's nuts. The woman's nuts."

"A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials."

"I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest."

"A relationship is lovely if you're happy, comfortable in it and you really like the person. I can think of nothing better. But there's nothing worse than having a relationship in which you feel no interest."

"The field of quantum valence fluctuations was another older interest which became much more active during this period, partly as a consequence of my own efforts."

"The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest."

"I was fourteen when Kissinger made his secret trip to China, and then there was subsequently Nixon's trip to China, and I was very much seized with an interest in China."
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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."


"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."


"When prose gets too stylized and out of control - and Stein is sometimes a good example - when you don't know what the hell is going on, then it's kind of boring."


"I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable."
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