When you live for many hundreds of years$$$ you know that every opportunity will come again.

I'm for open-mindedness and tolerance. I'm against any form of fanaticism$$$ fundamentalism or zealotry$$$ and this certainty of 'We have the truth.' The truth is far too large and complex. Nobody has the truth.

There's a hunger for stories in all of us$$$ adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them$$$ if the good books won't supply them.

I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do$$$ not for what they are.

He (Orwell) always made an impression of the passing traveler who meets one on the station$$$ points out that one is waiting for the wrong train$$$ and vanishes.

If you have enough book space$$$ I don't want to talk to you.

In our time$$$ the curse is monetary illiteracy$$$ just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.

The thought of what America would be likeIf the Classics had a wide circulation troubles my sleep.

There is$$$ after all$$$ no pleasure like that given by a woman who really wants to see you.

Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.