When the world is destroyed, it will be destroyed not by its madmen but by the sanity of its experts and the superior ignorance of its bureaucrats.
The only reward for love is the experience of loving.
He has the gift of quiet.
There is no such thing as a secure writer: every novel is an impossible mountain.
It's easy to forget what intelligence consists of: luck and speculation. Here and there a windfall, here and there a scoop.
I happen to write by hand. I don't even type.