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

Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.

If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true.

I write out of my intellectual experience.

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

If you could stop every atom in its position and direction, and if your mind could comprehend all the actions thus suspended, then if you were really, really good at algebra you could write the formula for all the future; and although nobody can be so clever as to do it, the formula must exist just as if one could.

When I think of how things could have turned out, I feel as if I've dodged, not just bullets, but 6mm shells.