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

“There must be a day or two in a man’s life when he is the precise age for something important.”

“The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are imaginary.”

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

“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. ”

“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.”

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