Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.

Well, when I was six years old I decided, not that I was going to be, but with my usual modesty, that I was a writer.

And the west, encumbered by crippling alliances, and hardened with a morality too rigid to accommodate itself to the swing of events, must ..... eventually ..... fall.

I am a Doctor. A.B... M.A... PH.D... ABMAPHID! Abmaphid has been variously described as a wasting disease of the frontal lobes, and as a wonder drug. It is actually both.

I write to find out what I'm talking about.

You may dislike the intention enormously but your judgment of the artistic merit of the work must not be based on your view of what it's about. The work of art must be judged by how well it succeeds in its intention.

There are only two things to write about: life and death.