The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.

There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be.

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

...the indispensable requirement for a good newspaperman - as eager to tell a lie as the truth.

The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.

The writer can grow as a person or he can shrink. ... His curiosity, his reaction to life must not diminish. The fatal thing is to shrink, to be interested in less, sympathetic to less, desiccating to the point where life itself loses its flavor, and one’s passion for human understanding changes to weariness and distaste.

In my day the library was a wonderful place.... We didn't have visual aids and didn't have various programs...it was a sanctuary.... So I tend to think the library should remain a center of knowledge.