It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power, who will?

Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge. Probably tertiary.

James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end.

Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.

I believe that there is a kind of poetry, even a kind of truth, in simple fact.

I have been a lucky man. But someone has to be.

There are only two kinds of books -- good books and the others. The good are winnowed from the bad through the democracy of time.