Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.

A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.

I could never have been a pacifist. To kill a man was surely to grant him an immeasurable benefit. Oh yes, people always, everywhere, loved their enemies. It was their friends they preserved for pain and vacuity.

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.

I wish sometimes you had a few bad motives, you might understand a little more about human beings.

You cannot love without intuition.

There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.