What I'm really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.

If a writer disbelieves what he is writing, then he can hardly expect his reader to believe it.

I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.

It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.

Time can't be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.

He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.