People like you should be stopped, Mr. Woodrow,' she mused aloud, with a puzzled shake of her wise head. 'You think you're solving the world's problems but actually you're the problem.

Without a pen in my hand I can't think.

The greatest threat to mankind comes from the renunciation of individual scruple in favor of institutional denominators. . . . Real heroism lies, as it always will, not in conformity or even patriotism, but in acts of solitary moral courage. Which, come to think of it, is what we used to admire in our Christian savior

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.

Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book.

For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict.

When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt.