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“Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.”
“It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”
“Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.”
“If there is a religious agency in our lives, it has to appear in the manner of our times. Not from on high, but a revelation that hides itself in our culture, it will be ground-level, on the street...”
“I started on computers with 'Billy Bathgate,' a little orange screen with black letters. I thought it was really cool, but it actually slowed me up for a while because it's so easy to revise, I ten...”
