To expect reason is where the fallacy lies.

I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that comes most naturally to me.

I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long.

I read pretty voraciously. If it's good, I don't care what it is.

Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions.

What if all everybody needed in the world was to be sure of one friend? What if you were the one, and you refused to say those simple words?

Were it not for Occam's Razor, which always demands simplicity, I'd be tempted to believe that human beings are more influenced by distant causes than immediate ones. This would especially be true of overeducated people, who are capable of thinking past the immediate, of becoming obsessed by the remote. It's the old stuff, the conflicts we've never come to terms with, that sneaks up on us, half forgotten, insisting upon action.