I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price.

Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage.

I move my lips when I read -- I'm painfully slow -- so I like really good English.

It's easy to forget what intelligence consists of: luck and speculation. Here and there a windfall, here and there a scoop.

I think that all writers feel alienated. ... I know that I do. ... I still feel, as I think most creative people do, absolutely isolated.

I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man.

A committee is an animal with four back legs.