It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?
Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in nineteenth-century France and England, or twentieth-century Russia and America.
You lose your manners when you're poor.
They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.