While I'm working on a book, I rarely read anything more than The New York Times. Which may have the long-term effect of flattening my style.

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

Growth is a greater mystery than death. All of us can understand failure, we all contain failure and death within us, but not even the successful man can begin to describe the impalpable elations and apprehensions of growth.

The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.

Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.

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

I don't want to retire. I'm not that good at crossword puzzles