I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place

To bring into the world an unwanted human being is as antisocial an act as murder.

For true happiness, it is not enough to be successful oneself . . . one's friends must fail.

In a society like ours, politics is improvisation. To the artful dodger rather than the true believer goes the prize.

CO₂ emissions anywhere threaten civilisation everywhere.

We're the most captive nation of slaves that ever came along. The moral timidity of the average American is quite noticeable. Everybody's afraid to be thought in any way different from everyone else.

There is no such thing as a true account of anything.