The great majority of modern third-person narration is "I" narration very thinly disguised.

Our present educational systems are all paramilitary. Their aim is to produce servants or soldiers who obey without question and who accepts their training as the best possible training. Those who are most successful in the state are those who have the most interest in prolonging the state as it is; they are also those who have the most say in the educational system, and in particular by ensuring that the educational product they want is the most highly rewarded.

In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.

That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects.

On the whole, dialogue is the most difficult thing, without any doubt. It's very difficult, unfortunately. You have to detach yourself from the notion of a lifelike quality. You see, actually lifelike, tape-recorded dialogue like this has very little to do with good novel dialogue. It's a matter of getting that awful tyranny of mimesis out of your mind, which is difficult.

Love is the mystery between two people, not the identity.

Wealth is a monster. It takes a month to learn to control it financially. And many years to learn to control it psychologically.