Every high C accurately struck demolishes the theory that we are the irresponsible puppets of fate or chance.

Great art is clear thinking about mixed feelings.

I'm always amazed at the American practice of allowing one party to a homosexual act to remain passive--it's so undemocratic. Sexmust be mutual.

The true men of action in our time, those who transform the world, are not the politicians and statesmen, but the scientists

We are lived by powers we pretend to understand.

If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then the best lives for the writer to observe are those in which the role of natural necessity is clearest, namely, the lives of the very poor.

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.