Accuracy first,” I used to tell the writers. “We must never lie by accident, or through slovenliness, only deliberately!

Reeducation needs careful tending, like an English lawn. Even one moment of negligence, and the weeds crop up again ~ those indestructible weeds of historical truth.

I gazed into the mirror... There, staring at me, was the pallid, flabby-mouthed face of a crook

The contented person finds rest in death, and for the greedy person, death puts an end to his long list of desires.

Suddenly I've become so restless that I'm capable of saying "That is enough" and ending what I'm writing you, which is based mostly on blind words.

One fails forward toward success.

I don't really care what's going on I just care about getting my job done the best that I can possibly do and deal with the other things in my life that take a lot of time and a lot of thought.

Silence sat in the taxi, as though a stranger had got in.

I've been coming to America since 1970, and it's like my second home, but I've never felt such a divided country, ever. I didn't think it would get to this point, and it breaks my heart.

The fact that the world is utterly insane makes it tolerable.

I go to clubs and if I notice the DJs are playing the records faster, then I'll push the beats a little on the next record I make. A lot of people don't know how to watch out for things like that.

The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.