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I like to think of love as something that one should keep feeding, like a fire.

Most days, at the pool, we are able to leave our troubles on land behind.

Best part of the day? The part when I come up with an idea for a cartoon.

How does he do it? I’ve been trying to figure this out for the past decade.

Love’s not all that fun, but it saves you. And you should be saved.

It helped me free myself from a longtime source of unhappiness.

Henry Chinaski is just so deplorable and lovable; he makes me laugh.

Favorite character? What a question. It’s like choosing a favorite child.

Love is the difference between a full life and an empty one.

This is kind of a big, wet valentine, isn’t it? Shouldn’t you throw it out?

The ideal way of presenting character is to invite perception.

Having a sister or a friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house.

I sometimes have to laugh because even now, as a middle-aged man.

Perhaps more than ever writers may have two kinds of fame.

I found it impossible not to imagine a radiant future for myself.

Poets need to be
in constant touch with the extremes of feeling.

That, indeed, is very nearly the whole of the higher artistic process.

When he died earlier this year an enormous hole was left in my life.

The last thing one settles in writing a book is what one should put in first.

American poetry is afflicted by modesty of ambition.

Grandfather advised me: learn a trade. I learned to sit at a desk.

There’s this cool magazine online. They let people read it for free.

The Interests of a writer and the interests of his readers are never...

The Warsaw Pact invaded in 1968 and soon banned Hrabal’s work.

Our culture cherishes a fantasy of a certain writerly existence.

I was bold, even reckless, in what I wrote, and in how I wrote it.