If I eat clean, I look 10 years younger.
Damn it all, it's the first duty of a soldier - it's the first duty of all Englishmen - to be able to tell a good lie in answer to a charge.
Higher than the beasts, lower than the angels, stuck in our idiot Eden.
If for nine years I have possessed a goodly apple that is rotten at the core and discover its rottenness only in nine years and six months less four days, isn't it true to say that for nine years I possessed a goodly apple?
For the judging of contemporary literature the only test is one's personal taste. If you much like a new book, you must call it literature even though you find no other soul to agree with you, and if you dislike a book you must declare that it is not literature though a million voices should shout you that you are wrong. The ultimate decision will be made by Time.
If you're going to have a character appear in a story long enough to sell a newspaper, he'd better be real enough that you can smell his breath.
The object of the novelist is to keep the reader entirely oblivious of the fact that the author exists - even of the fact he is reading a book.
Science's job is to map our ignorance.
Because Vietnam was not a declared war, the veterans are not even eligible for the G. I. Bill of Rights with respect to education or anything.
Silence is Wisdom where Speaking is Folly.
The best reason for listening to and learning from the poor is that this is one way God is revealed to us.