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" One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves. "

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" It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true. "

" Some of my father's fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, 'I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.' We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once. "

" There are so many things the people who take polls never get around to asking. "

" The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so. "

" You hear all this whining going on, 'Where are our great writers?' The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers? "

" Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith. "

" TV news is not very instructive. "

" Corporations must pay tax. "

" In essence, Clinton's Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders. "

" The unfed mind devours itself. "

" What the Kinseyites and I had in common so long ago was the knowledge that homosexual and heterosexual behavior are natural to all mammals, and that what differs from individual to individual is the balance between these two complementary but not necessarily conflicted drives. "

" The individual's desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining. "

" Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die. "

" My father once said something very shrewd about me to a woman journalist who had told him how courageous she thought I was for always speaking my mind. My father said, 'If you couldn't care less what anyone says about you, then it's not courage.' "

" Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil. "

" What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions. "

" Actually, I can't remember when I was not writing. "

" Everything's wrong on Wikipedia. "

" Love is not my bag. "

" Boys don't like girls around when they do boy things. "

" To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds. "

" In actual fact, I have always been a conservative cross, borne sadly by liberal friends. "

" In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it. "

" What I like least about myself is my belligerence. "

" Americans have no idea of the extent of their government's mischief... the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250. "

" The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all. "

" Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made. "

" I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place. "

" It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president. "