Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.

I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.

I worry about images. Images are what things mean.

We make a mistake to condescend to the past as if it were preparatory to our own time.

It was evident to him that the world composed and recomposed itself constantly in an endless process of dissatisfaction.

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.

Most people are quiet in the world, and live in it tentatively, as if it were not their own.