Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity.

From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers.

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 only truly intersting side of the matter was the intimate design of the injury, the fact that it was so penetrating, custom-made exactly to your measure. It's fascinating that hatred should be so personal as to be almost loving. The knife and the wound aching for each other.

A writer is a reader moved to emulation.

Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches.

I am something of a crank about sleep, for if I get seven and a quarter hours instead of eight I feel afflicted and drag myself around, although there's nothing really wrong with me. It's just another idea. That's how it is with my ideas; they seem to get strong while I weaken.