"A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions."
"Truth comes to us from the past, then, like gold washed down from the mountains."
"The two women exchanged the kind of glance women use when no knife is handy."
"God forbid people should read our books to find the juicy passages." Graham Greene
"When you start dealing with real change you are talking about interfering with those who are in possession of something."
"The human narrative, as we write it in novels and poems and stories, is a tale of never getting over the shock of life."