I went over the heads of the things a man reckons desirable. No doubt invisibility made it possible to get them, but it made it impossible to enjoy them when they are got.

Countless people...will hate the New World Order...and will die protesting against it...we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents.

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

Sometimes, you have to step outside of the person you've been and remember the person you were meant to be. The person you want to be. The person you are.

I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there.