Words make another place, a place to escape to with your spirit alone.

Well, I had a small degree, that little infection of skepticism about America which resides in the minds of even America's closest friends. That America can't be quite as good as it says it is. And why does it need so relentlessly to keep saying how good it is?

The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons.

Wordstruck is exactly what I was—and still am: crazy about the sound of words, the look of words, the taste of words, the feeling for words on the tongue and in the mind.

Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world.

Words make another place, a place to escape to with your spirit alone.

I never wanted to be a pundit.