Well, to be honest I think I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction.

A couple's first task, it has always seemed to me, is to solve the problem of breakfast; if this can be worked out amicably, most other difficulties can too.

History is the lies of the victors.

Perhaps the world progresses not by maturing, but by being in a permanent state of adolescence, of thrilled discovery.

It's easy, after all, not to be a writer. Most people aren't writers, and very little harm comes to them.

The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously.

...life is a gift bestowed without anyone asking for it; that the thinking person has a philosophical duty to examine both the nature of life and the conditions it comes with; and that if this person decides to renounce the gift no one asks for, it is the moral and human duty to act on the consequences of that decision.