- I see the real world, Nancy. But it doesn't seem real to me.- How does it seem?- It seems like an illusion that nobody notices.

Some people respect some people only because some people respect them.

There was not a moving up into vacated places

What I love about New York: the faster and more recklessly my cab driver drives the safer and all around better I feel.

Care and diligence bring luck.

You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.

Increasing the power of the state in response to the Soviet menace would not defeat socialism in Russia but bring it to the United States.

I think that writing and publishing are different. I think I will always write; I might not always publish. The idea of not publishing is wonderful!

It is requisite to defend those who are unjustly accused of having acted injuriously, but to praise those who excel in a certain good.

When I began to read, I began to exist