We, perhaps, have corrupted our children and our grandchildren by heedless affluence, by a lack of manliness, by giving the younger generation more money and liberty than their youth can handle, by indoctrinating them with sinister ideologies and false values, by permitting them, as young children, to indulge themselves in imprudence to superiors and defiance of duly constituted authority, by lack of prudent, swift punishment when the transgressed, by coddling and pampering them when they were children and protecting them from a very dangerous world.

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

Are we not all desperate one way or another?

. . . a statement that is repugnant to one's beliefs can be as true as one that is pleasurable.

We are not old unless we desire to be.

My literary success meant nothing to me

My childhood was appalling.