Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight's not on them. But they do get somewhere.

In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.

Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.

Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.

Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.

If the public likes you, you're good. Shakespeare was a common, down-to-earth writer in his day.

Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely humanist one

It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.

Clearly, once the student is no longer a student the possibilities of relationship are enlarged.

Now when I look back to the Guildford of that time it seems far more exotic to me than Nagasaki.

I'm not sure I'm happy with words such as "task" or "role" when they are attached to literature.

We're not in love with Literature all the time - especially when you have to teach it every day.

I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.

People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share.

If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.

They've asked me to do this temporarily. I don't know what temporarily means. Life is temporary.

It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.

I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty.

Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence.

Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.

Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.

Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.

Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer.

Mathematics to me is like a language I don’t speak though I admire its literature in translation.

I gave my word that this source would not be identified unless he changed his mind. He has not...

The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature."

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.

Play more than one game at a time. This is a painless way to learn how to do many things at once.

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.

Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.

It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.

Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.

My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have

There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.

Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop.

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember.

Warfare has been marvelously developed. It will soon be impossible to raise it to further heights.

Because our choices are largely based on survival. But if life is eternal, life is not a question.

Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.

The literature of women's lives is a tradition of escapees, women who have lived to tell the tale.

Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.

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