The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.

The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest.

A writer's style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias...it is the Self escaping into the open.

I have no warm up exercises, other than to take an occasional drink.

It seemed to me that I should have a desk, even though I had no real need for a desk. I was afraid that if I had no desk in my room my life would seem too haphazard.

As in the sexual experience, there are never more than two persons present in the act of reading-the writer, who is the impregnator, and the reader, who is the resspondent. This gives the experience of reading a sublimity and power unequalled by any other form of communication.

new york provides not only a continuing excitation but also a spectacle that is continuing.