Women: We cannot love them all. But we must try.

Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.

In the Soviet Union, government controls industry. In the United States, industry controls government. That is the principal structural difference between the two great oligarchies of our time.

Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast... a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure.

A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.

There comes a point, in literary objectivity, when the author's self- effacement is hard to distinguish from moral cowardice.

Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.