"And took for truth the test of ridicule."

"To Sylvan truth was truth and all else was black heresy, though on occasion he had the very human difficulty of deciding which was which."

"A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction."

"There is a limitation, in other words, upon the power of the United States to bring about solutions. I think our people get awfully impatient and maybe fatigued and tired, and saying "We have been car…"

"Europe is a landscape; East Asia a seascape. Therein lies a crucial difference between the twentieth and twenty-first centuries."