Conservatives are people who look at a tree and feel instinctively that it is more beautiful than anything they can name. But when it comes to defending that tree against a highway, they will go for the highway.

When a novel comes, it's a grace. Something in the cosmos has forgiven you long enough so that you can start.

Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.

Along with all else, Sandman is a comic strip for intellectuals, and I say it's about time.

I am not here only so that the blind might see, but to teach those who thought they could see that they are blind

You can indulge your righteous rage but the things it comes out of are pretty cheap. The trick is to make yourself an instrument of your own policy. Whether you like it or not, that's the highest effectiveness man has achieved.

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.