The New York Times is the worst in that hardly anybody can write English over there. Most of it reads like slight translations from the German.

There are certain truths so true that they are practically unbelievable.

You can't really succeed with a novel anyway; they're too big. It's like city planning. You can't plan a perfect city because there's too much going on that you can't take into account. You can, however, write a perfect sentence now and then. I have.

I was brought up to believe that what is out-of-doors should stay there and not be encouraged in any way.

In the town of Ravella, where I have a house, when the Supreme Court said that an act of sodomy, as they describe it, could not be committed between a man and his wife, the entire square burst into laughter.

Christianity is such a silly religion.

Terrorism is a direct response to the crimes our government has committed against foreigners (besides which, the actual terrorists are within our own government)