People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music.

Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.

Writers talk too much.

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.

Nowadays people write English as if a rat were caught in the typewriter and they were trying to hit the keys which wouldn't disturb it.

as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.

No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.