When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.

And I'm convinced that knowing the names of things braces people up.

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.

The best and purest human beings, from the beginning of time, have understood that life is sacred.

And what about all the good I have in my heart - does it mean anything?