Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.

One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war.

I buy way too many books.

What a laugh, though. To think that one human being could ever really know another. You could get used to each other, get so habituated that you could speak their words right along with them, but you never know why other people said what they said or did what they did, because they never even know themselves. Nobody understands anybody.

It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead.

Reasonable argument is impossible when authority becomes the arbiter.

I doubt that America will come to Europe again. You'll be on your own against militant Islam.