Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.

To read a newspaper for the first time is like coming into a film that has been on for an hour. Newspapers are like serials. To understand them you have to take knowledge to them; . . . best is the knowledge provided by the newspaper itself.

"The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it."

"An autobiography can distort, facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies. It reveals the writer totally."

I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.