I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind and I cannot do anything else but write about it.

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge.

If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.

He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.

When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he’s nobody’s friend.

The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.

You can't get unless you give. And you have to give without wanting to get.

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.

You cannot win in a fight against women, cause men have a need to make sense

There ain't no point in making soup unless others eat it. Soup needs another mouth to taste it, another heart to be warmed by it.

Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.

The universe is a Divine thought that has taken form.

Let experience, the least fallible guide of human opinion, be appealed to for an answer to these inquiries.

I could live a better life if I had a better mind and a better body

Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.

Speculative fiction is where my heart lies. It's what I read growing up, and it's what I read as an adult.

I have never felt at any point in my life, good or bad, any ill will ever from the man or woman on the street.

Everything we "know" from above [heaven], we know from down here [earth]. How can you take something like that seriously?