I think it is interesting that we have come back to star- and space ships. Jet will do for a transport shorthand; yet when man really reaches, across the vast seas of space, he still reaches in ships.

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

Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.

The privileges of knowledge have to be bought at the cost of the consolations of ignorance.

You come to the United States not knowing what to expect. Then all your worst prejudices are confirmed.

Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both senses-greed.

I hate the uneducated and the ignorant. I hate the pompous and the phoney. I hate the jealous and the resentful. I hate the crabbed and mean and the petty. I hate all ordinary dull little people who aren't ashamed of being dull and little.