“How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.”
“Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.”
“Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either. ”
“I’m not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don’t. Move on and move out.”
“It is not enough merely to win; others must lose.”
“The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death.”
“Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!”
“We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.”