Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?

Don't judge it. Just write it. Don't judge it. It's not for you to judge it.

You tasted it. Isn't that enough? Of what do you ever get more than a taste? That's all we're given in life, that's all we're given of life. A taste. There is no more.

When he is sick, every man wants his mother.

Fear presides over these memories, a perpetual fear.Of course no childhood is without its terrors, yet I wonder if I would have been a less frightened boy if Lindbergh hadn't been president or if I hadn't been the offspring of Jews.

You can't write good satirical fiction in America because reality will quickly outdo anything you might invent.

The danger with hatred is, once you start in on it, you get a hundred times more than you bargained for. Once you start, you can't stop.