You tell me your favorite novelists and I'll tell you whom you vote for, or whether you vote at all.

When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.

You tell me your favorite novelists and I'll tell you whom you vote for, or whether you vote at all.

Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination.

Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an alcoholic, then the most sympathetically portrayed character in his book will be an alcoholic. This sort of thing is very boring for outsiders.

Great writers are not those who tell us we shouldn’t play with fire, but those who make our fingers burn.

Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth