Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment.

for real pleasure a pleasure resort should have no one in it but its legitimate inhabitants, oneself, and perhaps one's friends.

Very few people really care about freedom, about liberty, about the truth, very few. Very few people have guts, the kind of guts on which a real democracy has to depend. Without people with that sort of guts a free society dies or cannot be born.

I'm very unhappy when I'm not writing.

It can be considered a rule that the probable duration of an Empire may be prognosticated by the degree to which its rulers believe in their own propaganda.

Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.

In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better.