Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century France and England, or 20th-century Russia and America.

It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

Writers talk too much.

Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice.

Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.

Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.

Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.