The study of mathematics is the indispensable basis for all intellectual and spiritual progress.

I had a little dog and my dog was very small....Of all the treasures that were mine, I loved him most of all.

Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.

Every public action which is not customary, either is wrong or, if it is right, is a dangerous precedent. It follows that nothing should ever be done for the first time.

Nothing is ever done until everyone is convinced that it ought to be done, and has been convinced for so long that it is now time to do something else.

My love came back to me Under the November tree Shelterless and dim. He put his hand upon my shoulder, He did not think me strange or older, Nor I, him.

University printing presses exist, and are subsidised by the Government for the purpose of producing books which no one can read; and they are true to their high calling.

You will find the whole world will change to you when you change your attitude toward it.

Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.

I read On the Road in maybe 1959. It changed my life like it changed everyone else's.

I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'

... an ugly, lovely town ... crawling, sprawling ... by the side of a long and splendid curving shore. This sea-town was my world.

I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side.

Up until about a hundred years ago, the world was dark at night. You got to have a real night so you could sleep.

Looking straight at the world is part of your duty as a writer.

As electronic journalism came to be evaluated for its cost effectiveness, the network world began breaking up.

I would never say that I'm not going to do something. I like not being limited.