As souls must cry when they awaken in tiny babies and find themselves far from heaven

Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us.

Money is like water in a leaky bucket: no sooner there, it begins to drip.

It's great to have an enemy. Sharpens your senses.

...but with his mother there's no question of liking him they're not even in a way separate people he began in her stomach and if she gave him life she can take it away and if he feels that withdrawal it will be the grave itself.

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

You write because you don't talk very well, and maybe one of the reasons that I was determined to write was that I wasn't an orator, unlike my mother and my grandfather, who both spoke beautifully and spoke all the time. Maybe I grew up with too many voices around me, as a matter of fact.