There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.
I am a Catholic not like someone else would be a Baptist or a Methodist, but like someone else would be an atheist.
I think there is no suffering greater than what is caused by the doubts of those who want to believe.
Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.
It's always wrong of course to say that you can't do this or you can't do that in fiction. You can do anything you can get away with, but nobody has ever gotten away with much.
On the subject of the feminist business, I just never think. . . of qualities which are specifically feminine or masculine. I suppose I divide people into two classes: the Irksome and the Non-Irksome without regard to sex. Yes and there are the Medium Irksome and the Rare Irksome.
In a sense sickness is a place, more instructive than a long trip to Europe, and it's always a place where there's no company, where nobody can follow. Sickness before death is a very appropriate thing and I think those who don't have it miss one of God's mercies.
A farmer's market is worth more than everything I've written.
Technological change can become 'fetishized' as a 'thing in itself', as an exogenous guiding force in the history of capitalism.
Basketball for me has always been a matter of rhythm - what you do bouncing the ball, how you bounce the ball, how you run, how you receive the ball to be in rhythm.
War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others.