Americans have discovered fear.

...the human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other one, that bleeds so readily.

When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day.

The time for miracles has either passed or not come yet, besides, miracles, genuine miracles, whatever people say, are not such a good idea, if it means destroying the very order of things in order to improve them.

The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.

The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.

I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.