For if the world treats you well, Sir, you come to believe you are deserving of it.

We do not know how we'd behave. But a lot of people facing fascism didn't become fascists. I don't happen to believe that we are all monsters.

To take that risk, to offer life and remain alive, open yourself like this and become whole.

One good maxim to keep in mind, and I can't remember who said it, "You meet the same people on the way down that you meet on the way up, but you're going the other way."

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.

Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.

Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.