A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres the same lively generous intelligence suffusing all he did.
Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth....
I wasn't privy to all of the intelligence that was coming in about Guatemala...
There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul or in a magic that acts on it through speech.
