These are two opposing forces, and whenever I am in active politics, I stop writing. And when I'm writing, I don't politick.

Class is the most difficult subject for American writers to deal with as it is the most difficult for the English to avoid.

What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

When the Presidential virus attacks the system there is a tendency for the patient in his fever to move from the Right or the Left to the Center where the curative votes are.

France is a nation devoted to the false hypothesis on which it then builds marvelously logical structures.

a writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist)