All people are insane. They will do anything at any time, and God help anybody who looks for reasons.

The polls demonstrate that 50 percent of Americans who get their news from TV think Saddam Hussein was behind the Twin Towers attack. Man, have they got ways for getting half-truths out right away now, thanks to TV! I think TV is a calamity in a democracy.

I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle.

Every sentence must do one of two things-reveal character or advance the action.

Here was what Kilgore Trout cried out to me in my father's voice: "Make me young, make me young, make me young!

Everybody knows that the dumbest people in any American university are in the education department, and English after that.

For a Russian to be chivalrous with an American is a spiritual impossibility, a conradiction in terms.