Even a fool could see that one didn't need a war, nuclear or otherwise, to destroy oneself; the rising cost of weaponry could do that quite nicely.

Science is turning into a monastery for the Order of Capitulant Friars. Logical calculus is supposed to supersede man as moralist. We submit to the blackmail of the 'superior knowledge' that has the temerity to assert that nuclear war can be, by derivation, a good thing, because this follows from simple arithmetic.

A man who for an entire week does nothing but hit himself over the head has little reason to be proud.

There is only one positive role of the Nobel prize--it creates some common way to understand a writer. I cannot say, that I like this situation, but that's the way it goes. The books are being born and then walk around the world, just as children do.

Every stink that fights the ventilator thinks it is Don Quixote.

A candidate is a person who gets money from the rich and votes from the poor to protect them from each other.

He who has had, has been, but he who hasn't been, has been had.