After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can't trust a person.

Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words.

Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.

I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.

Free as air; that's what they say- "free as air". Now they bring me my air in an iron barrel.

The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.

In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.