The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test.

Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked with

The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.

To be great is to assume great concerns.

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

The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test.

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