“Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all. ”

“You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.”

“Nobody can write such ironic things unless he has a deep sense of injustice-injustice to those members of the race who are victims of the stupid, the pretentious and the hypocritical.”

“Health is the thing that makes you feel like that now is the best time of the year.”

“Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.”

“I find that a great part of the information I have acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way”

“Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.”