Cancer is the growth of madness denied.

Prevarication, like honesty, is reflexive, and soon becomes a sturdy habit, as reliable as truth.

If you can change style, why stick to one style? Style is a vanity because it gives you product identification.

You do not really wish to hear more of the Battle of Kadesh. Let me say only that human fat, gorged in considerable quantity, has an intoxicating effect. I became ... drunk.

Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.

We didn't win the Cold War, we were just a big bank that bankrupted a smaller bank because we had an arms race that wiped the Russians out.

Since great writers communicate a vision of existence, one can't borrow their methods. The method is married to the vision.