Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations.

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.

We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary.

If you've had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you.

Real evidence is usually vague and unsatisfactory. It has to be examined---sifted. But here the whole thing is cut and dried. No, my friend, this evidence has been very cleverly manufactured---so cleverly that it has defeated its own ends.

You agree - I'm sure you agree that beauty is the only thing worth living for.