You become who you pretend to be..

There were lots of things to stop and see-and then it was time to go, always time to go..

I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases..

What memories for mud to have..

George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography..

To be is to do - Socrates To do is to be - Sartre Do Be Do Be Do - Sinatra.

Perhaps, when we remember wars, we should take off our clothes and paint ourselves blue and go on all fours all day long and grunt like pigs. That wo….

There are too many of us and we are all too far apart..

The polls demonstrate that 50 percent of Americans who get their news from TV think Saddam Hussein was behind the Twin Towers attack. Man, have they ….

The two prime movers in the Universe are Time and Luck..

Your eloquence should be the servant of the ideas in your head. Your rule might be this: If a sentence, no matter how excellent, does not illuminate ….

I would not be interested in writing if I didn't feel that what I wrote was an act of good citizenship or an attempt, at any rate, to be a good citiz….

And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep..

Live while you live, when you're dead you're dead..

Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them in order that the reader may see what they ar….

I've written about Powers Hapgood. He was a Harvard graduate, son of a wealthy family who owned a cannery out there. After leaving Harvard, he went t….

Well, there was stuff going on, heroic events. One was what used to be, and probably still is, the largest moving project in history. The headquarter….

I have no culture, no humane harmony in my brains. I can't live without a culture anymore..

How’s the patient?” asked Derby. “Dead to the world.” “But not actually dead.” “No.” “How nice - to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being….

Before you kill somebody, make absolutely sure he isn't well connected. So it goes..

Tis better to have love and lust Than to let our apparatus rust..