Invaders Always Destroy Libraries.

A Writer's First Duty Is To Be Clear. Clarity Is An Excellent Virtue. Like All Virtues It Can Be Pursued At Ruinous Cost. Paid, So Far As I Am Concerned, Joyfully.

If The Novel Is Dying, I See No Chance That Dismembering It Will Revive It.

The Sex Even In Serious Pornography Has Less Singularity Than The Mating Of Squirrels.

There Is As Much Vanity In Self-scourgings As In Self-justification.

... The Whole Of Society In Washington Is To Some Degree Political. It Is Like No Other Capital City Known To Me, In That Political Thinking, The Whole Business, Technical And Personal, Of Politics, Is Not Diluted By An Equal Interest In Art, Industry, Amusement, Anything You Like. I Don't Meant That These Are Non-existent In Washington -- Only That They Are Subdued To The Ruling Passion.