The only faithfulness people have is to emotions they're trying to recapture

Writing for a newspaper is like running a revolutionary war. You go to battle not when you are ready, but when action offers itself.

One of the reasons the English got through all their falls and the loss of their empire, all their disasters, their strikes, their difficulties, their wars through the years was they had Shakespeare to fall back on. And they speak well in England.

The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is no shame today. We're all getting so mean and small and petty and ridiculous, and we all live under the threat of extermination.

Somewhere, something incredible happened in history - the wrong guys won.

Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.

Faction is that hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration.