It is useless either to hate or to love truth - but it should be noticed.

All politicians know that every 'temporary' political initiative promised as a short-term poultice stays on the books forever.

I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer.

Wars, invented and organized by the highest available consciousnesses (do the worms go to war? do the fish? do the paramecia?), are the planet's chief source and cause of torment.

Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.

Bohemia and all its works are vanished out of America; or, more exactly, bohemia has migrated to the middle class, and is alive and well in condo and suburb.

I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing.