So the blind will lead the blind, and the deaf shout warnings to one another until their voices are lost.

There`s a tendency for Americans, particularly the simpler you are, the more you believe in the president as the kind of person to be.

Being a real writer means being able to do the work on a bad day.

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.

For 40 years we were led to think of the Russians as godless, materialistic and an evil empire. When the Cold War ended, we suddenly discovered that Russia was a poor Third World country. They had not been equipped to take over the world. In fact, they were just trying to improve a miserable standard of oppressive living, and couldn't. They had to spend too much on arms build-up. We didn't win the Cold War; we bankrupted the Russians. In effect, it was a big bank exhausting the reserves of a smaller one.

A really good style comes only when a man has become as good as he can be. Style is character. A good style cannot come from a bad undisciplined character.

People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don't understand something in our past, we are therefore crippled.