Traitors who prevail are patriots; usurpers who succeed are divine emperors.

The U.S. Bill of Rights is being steadily eroded, with two million telephone calls tapped, 30 million workers under electronic surveillance, and, says the author, countless Americans harassed by a government that wages spurious wars against drugs and terrorism.

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

In large Victorian houses with many rooms and heavy doors, the occupants could be mysterious and exciting to one another in a way that those who live in rackety developments can never hope to be. Not even the lust of a Lord Byron could survive the fact of Levittown.

Since nothing is free, to each his price.

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes.