I don't like myself, and I don't like to be looked at..

But what began in 1941 was a process of destruction not planned in advance, not organized centrally by any agency. There was no blueprint and there w….

I have nothing to declare except my genuis..

I always hesitate to say that something is lifelike..

My life now could not be better..

We've got to get in to get out..

We love those whom we serve (p. 26).

Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small... and you will escape the jealousy of the great..

And he smote the Balrog upon the mountainside..

To become historically-minded is to be grown-up..

Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling.

Don't take yourself too seriously. And take yourself as seriously as death itself..

That's the thing with love: It's going to be wrong until it's right..

I like to be counted on..

On film, it's really nice to see that transformation from the beginning, reading the script, to know where he starts and where he ends, and be able t….

Women are the only correspondents to be depended on..

Never hope for it more than you work for it..

. . . the circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set..

It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the….

It was through reading that I discovered the crucial, even sacrosanct place the rituals of drinking held in the American imagination - the ingenious ….

But an experienced reader is also a self-aware and critical reader. I can't remember ever reading a story without judging it..