What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.

I write in the morning at a table, longhand on yellow legal pads, just like Nixon, when I’m doing fiction.

Love is a fan club with only two fans.

Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.

Astronauts: rotarians in outer space.

I don't see us winning the war. We have made enemies of one billion Muslims.

...you will do more harm than good by attempting to supplant old dogmas and customs with new dogmas. It will be the same in the end except that the old is less militant, less dangerous than a new order imposed by enthusiasts.