The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.

when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.

Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more - absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.

You can't be afraid to do good in case evil results.

Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more-absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.

Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.