Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

There is music in words, and it can be heard you know, by thinking.

Whenever citizens are seen routinely as enemies of their own government, writers are rountinely seen to be the most dangerous enemies.

All over the world today, not just in the totalitarian countries, assiduous functionaries in Ministries of Truth are clubbing history dumb and rendering language insensible.

Leo Crowley, Harry [Truman]'s Foreign Economic Administrator, tells Congressmen the theory...: 'If you create good governments in foreign countries, automatically you will have better markets for ourselves.' With that honeycunt staring you in the face, you'd forget your grammar too.

Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours.

Time seems to me a drift, a shifting of sand. And my mind is shifting with it. I am wearing away.