I'm the wave pushed by the wind, always receding before reaching the shore.

Try not to be too stupid, will you?"That sounded like some great advice...

Face the truth, face it. Don't face the lie, face the truth!

I'd like to credit my speed to my grandfather. But he was also a quiet player. He didn't talk much. He just went out there on the field and did his own thing.

I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.

We are these people, wistful, ironical, wilful, who have no part in new-world reconstruction, in the confederacy of labour.

Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.

Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.

My wife has a whim of iron.

Whenever there was a crisis, I found a man to help me take the edge off the feelings of helplessness and pain.

All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.