Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.

Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought.

Who knows whether there may not be a moment in childhood when the world changes forever, like making a face when the clock strikes?

My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents; I preferred the title of reporter. I wrote what I saw. I took no action -- even an opinion is a kind of action.

A brain is only capable of what it could conceive, andit couldnt concieve what it hasnt experienced

The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.

And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed.