Reaching consensus in a group is often confused with finding the right answer.

There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.

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

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

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.

The mark of mediocrity is to look for precedent.

I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.