I have a superstition that if I talk about plot, it's like letting sand out of a hole in the bottom of a bag.

For most people it's easier to support an eminent person in deserved disgrace than an obscure one who has been wronged.

There is balance in life, but not fairness.

Madness might sometimes give access to a kind of knowledge. But was not a guarantee.

Since the moment of the United Nations' inception, untold energies have been expended by governments not only toward the exclusion of persons of principle and distinction from the organization's leading positions, but toward the installation of men whose character and affiliations would as far as possible preclude any serious challenge to governmental sovereignty.

Nothing creates such untruth in you as the wish to please.

I think that one is constantly startled by the things that appear before you on the page when you're writing.