A good writer does not receive anywhere near the number of poison-pen letters that is commonly assumed. Among a hundred jackassesthere are not ten who will admit to being jackasses, and at most one who will put it in writing.

A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards.

What the teachers digest, the pupils eat.

Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it.

Ideas are transplanted by splitting, thoughts by sprouting.

Psychoanalysis: a rabbit that was swallowed by a boa constrictor just wanted to see what it was like in there.

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.