I categorically declare first my absolute innocence, second my lack of criminal intent, and third my effusive apologies.

I do not care to listen; obloquy injures my self-esteem and I am skeptical of praise.

When you demand the nature of my motives, you reveal the style of your thinking to be callow, captious, superficial, craven, uncertain and impudent.

I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.

Truth" is contained in the preconceptions of him who seeks to define it. Any organization of ideas whatever presupposes a judgment on the world.

An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought.

A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment.