There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

No two persons ever read the same book.

If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.

In times of disorder and stress, the fanatics play a prominent role; in times of peace, the critics. Both are shot after the revolution.

I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.

The most immoral and disgraceful and dangerous thing that anybody can do in the arts is knowingly to feed back to the public its own ignorance and cheap tastes.

Keep going; never stop; sit tight; Read something luminous at night.

Only the curious will learn and only the resolute will overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.

You have to accept gifts occasionally, because there are some things you can’t give yourself

Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damndest.

In Washington, a confidential assistant is someone who, if you don't want to know something, you go and ask him and he won't tell you.

I don't know about you, but I like to fall in love on Mondays. This way if things go south right away you still have the weekend.

I think so, Silence of the Lambs was a great, suspenseful thriller and I would expect Red Dragon to be similar. And I think it's very character driven.

A lot of people in my life are getting sick or potentially going to get sick from tobacco.

Hate no one, for hate is a starving beast who has just found its prey.

Do not dismantle the house, but look at each brick, and replace those which appear to be broken, which no longer support the structure.

The secret of the illusoriness is in the necessity of a succession of moods or objects. Gladly we would anchor, but the anchorageis quicksand.

People, unprotected by their roles, become isolated in beauty and intellect and illness and confusion.