You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

All political organizations tend to function like a machine, to eliminate the unpredictable factor of affect - emotion.

Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference.

A doctor is not criticized for describing the manifestations and symptoms of an illness, even though the symptoms may be disgusting. I feel that a writer has the right to the same freedom In fact, I think that the time has come for the line between literature and science, a purely arbitrary line, to be erased.

You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

I've seen villages in South America with no police whatever. Then the cops would arrive, then the sanitary inspectors, and before you know it they've got all the problems - crime, juvenile delinquency, the whole works - just like us.

I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren't cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it.