The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.

If war's first victim is truth, its second is clerical efficiency.

Time is what stops history happening at once; time is the speed at which the past disappears.

Probably" is a word with an emergency ejector seat.

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

Gosh. The subjunctive is always the first to go.

Dead things show you what you’ll be too one day.