If we reduce social life to the smallest possible unit we will find that there is no social life in the company of one.

A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.

If we reduce social life to the smallest possible unit we will find that there is no social life in the company of one.

People say, "Well, you went on television, it enlarged your readership." It did not at all, not at all. I might as well tell you, I lost some readership, because the profound audience felt somehow bothered by my too easy manner.

There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant.

Like nature, our economic system remains, in the long run, stable and rational...We welcome the inevitable seasons of our economy! How foolish of us.

She seemed to belong to that pagan, primitive kingdom of birds and forests where everything was infinitely abundant, wild, blooming, and royal in its perpetual decay, death, and rebirth; illicit and clashing with the human world.