“I understand small business growth. I was one.”
“Don't tell me you're one of those people who becomes their disease. I know so many people like that disheartening. Like, cancer is in the growth business, right?”
“I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.”
“The cost of growth is always a small act of violence.”
“No one could possibly understand my purest feelings but I couldn't care less; My deepest yearnings are nobody's goddamn business anyway”
“The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.”