What's the difference between the Lone Ranger and God? There really is a Lone Ranger.

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science.

Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today.

When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.

Once upon a time, I dreamed of becoming a great man. Later, a good man. Now, finally, I find it difficult enough and honor enough to be -- a man.

Style: There is something in too much verbal felicity (as in Joyce or Nabokov or Borges) that can betray the writer into technique for the sake of technique.