It was an odd thing to do, to stand in a street in the hope of seeing someone who hardly knew him, but he did not want to move.

I might not be a good socialist, any more than I'm a good Christian, but I am one.

There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era.

The duck swallows the worm, the fox kills the duck, the men shoot the fox, and the devil hunts the men.

Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.

It was an odd thing to do, to stand in a street in the hope of seeing someone who hardly knew him, but he did not want to move.

An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit.