Sometimes we don't even realize what we really care about, because we get so distracted by the symbols.

America is a wonderful country! I mean it! No honest writer would challenge that statement! The human comedy never runs out of material! it never lets you down!

Everybody, everybody everywhere, has his own movie going, his own scenario, and everybody is acting his movie out like mad, only most people don’t know that is what they’re trapped by, their little script.

A lie may fool someone else, but it tells you the truth: you're weak.

Most people don't read editorial pages. I think I must have been 40 before I even looked at an editorial page.

The world was simply and sheerly divided into 'the aware', those who had the experience of being vessels of the divine, and a great mass of 'the unaware', 'the unmusical', 'the unattuned.

I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.