Art Is A Form Of Consciousness.

I Am Profoundly Uncertain How To Write. I Know What I Love And What I Like, Because It's A Direct Passionate Response. But When I Write, I'm Very Uncertain Whether It's Good Enough. That Is, Of Course, The Writer's Agony.

War Is Elective. It Is Not An Inevitable State Of Affairs. War Is Not The Weather.

The Way In Which A Certain Kind Of Political Idealism Has Been Discredited And Scorned Makes The Danger Not That Intellectuals Keep On Making Fools Of Themselves, Formulating Political Opinions When They Might Not Be As Informed As They Might Be, But That They Retreat And Leave Politics To The Professionals.

My Library Is An Archive Of Longings.

A Great Writer Has All 4 - But You Can Still Be A Good Writer With Only 1 And 2.