Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
Every writer has his favorite coterie of enemies: Mine is the East Coast literati -- those prep school playmates and their Ivy League colleagues.
Metaphysics is a cobweb that the mind weaves around things.
The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.
I must confess that I know nothing whatsoever about true underlying reality, never having met any.
Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.