We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.

It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.

Styles in wit change so.

But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.

The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.