The way you write affects what you say.

The condition that is most disagreeable in your life becomes the most useful one. You know, I feel the same way about the U.S. Army. It was absolutely the worst experience of my life, and it was probably the single most valuable experience.

I can`t get excited about politics, but I love it as a game. Because what I love in politics - this is very selfish of me, but who cares - what I do love in politics is this ability it has to make you think in new ways.

The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.

People who are greedy have extraordinary capacities for waste-they must, they take in too much.

Love is simple to understand if you haven't got a mind soft and full of holes. It's a crutch, that's all, and there isn't any one of us that doesn't need a crutch.

What's the use of being a writer if you can't irritate a great many people?