I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really.

Of all forms of fiction, autobiography is the most gratuitous.

No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable.

We've traveled too far, and our momentum has taken over; we move idly towards eternity, without possibility of reprieve or hope of explanation.

One bulls-eye and you're rich and famous. The rich get more famous and the famous get rich. You're the talk of the town....The sense of so much depending on success is very hard to ignore, perhaps impossible. It leads to disproportionate anxiety and disproportionate relief or disappointment.

Save the gerund and screw the whale.

We're better at predicting events at the edge of the galaxy or inside the nucleus of an atom than whether it'll rain on auntie's garden party three Sundays from now.