[My father] loved me tenderly and shyly from a distance, and later on took a naive pride in seeing my name in print.

You can't help people being right for the wrong reasons...This fear of finding oneself in bad company is not an expression of political purity; it is an expression of a lack of self-confidence.

A publisher who writes is like a cow in a milk bar.

Adolescence is a kind of emotional seasickness. Both are funny, but only in retrospect.

One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up.

Conscious and unconscious experiences do not belong to different compartments of the mind; they form a continuous scale of gradations, of degrees of awareness.

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.