“The Local Paper here asked that me books be banned........THE HIGHEST PRAISE for an Irish writer.”

“The local paper is called the World.”

“An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, ‘What’s your alma mater?’ I told him, ‘Books.”

“It is the highest reward when a writer hears when a book written in doubt and solitude, has reached a human heart with a deeper meaning than even the writer had been aware of, as she wrote. It is something extra, the unexpected return.”

“The disorder in Yashar's apartment was that comfortable littering and stacking that only another writer can recognize as order - the considered scatter of papers and books a writer builds around himself until it acquires the cozy solidity of a nest.”

“I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they must be good.”