Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food.

For me writing is foremost a mode of thinking and when it works well, an act of discovery

Political correctness and so many of the political fashions of the day...could only be perpetrated in adolescent minds: minds, that is, that are trained to search out one thing and one thing only...Only an adolescent would find it worthwhile to devote his or her attention chiefly to the hunting of offenses, the possibility of slights, real and imagined.

Always seek the general and never quite trust it.

By the way, the secret of speaking French is confidence. Whether you are right or wrong, you don't hesitate.

If geniuses can sometimes make mistakes, cannot the rest of us on occasion be geniuses?

Many moons ago dictionaries of quotations may have been less needed than they are today. In those good/bad old days, people walked around with entire poems and all the Shakespearean soliloquies in their heads.