Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.

It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.

Industrial society seems likely to be entering a period of severe stress, due in part to problems of human behavior and in part to economic and environmental problems

We fear something before we hate.

Like the bee its sting, the promiscuous leave behind them in each encounter something of themselves by which they are made to suffer.

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.