Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more.

One of the most fascinating aspects of politician-watching is trying to determine to what extent any politician believes what he says.

One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.

History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.

You cannot get through the density of the propaganda with which the American people, through the dreaded media, have been filled and the horrible public educational system we have for the average person. It's just grotesque.

True wisdom is to know the extent of what you don't know quite as well as you know what you do know.

Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.