Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations.

The Republicans’ plan is that if they can’t buy the 2012 election they will steal it.

[On newspapers:] A first draft of history.

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations.

The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.