The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.
When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.
Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts.
If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.
Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
