Never offend an enemy in a small way.

No one reads novels anymore. And I don't see the situation improving. People prefer video games, reality TV, and films. There are so many reasons now not to read novels.

Universities are filled with poets and novelists conducting demure and careful lives in imitation of Eliot and Forster and those others who (through what seems to be have been discretion) made it.

Nixon was a Southern Rim President, and so antipathetic to the old guard.

I liked the trichotomy, that's the only thing I ever liked.

Next to "I win," "I told you so" are the sweetest words.

Despite the warnings of other times, the impetuous and the confident continue their indiscriminate cultivation of weeds at the expense of occasional flowers.