With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence.

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A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.

A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever......

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever......

Conquered people tend to be witty.

Conquered people tend to be witty.

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night...

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night...

As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was...

As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was...

We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.

We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.

I'm glad I haven't lived in vain.

I'm glad I haven't lived in vain.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion...

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion...

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night...

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night...

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between...

Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between...

Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.

Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.

All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a...

All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a...

There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more...

There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more...

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need...

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need...

Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended...

Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended...

California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You...

California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You...