Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego.

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

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

Bright was the light of my last martini on my moral horizon

Like all men who are Napoleonic in their ambitionshe has instincts about the nature of growth, a lover's sense of the momentof crisis, and he knewhow costly is defeat when it is not soothed by greater consciousness, and how wasteful is the profit of victory when there is not the courage to employ it.

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.

The true religion of America has always been America.