我本质上不是一个政治人物。我不认为作家是，或者应该是政治人物。

We are not asked to be successful, only to be faithful.

In looking for someone to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. But the most important is integrity because if they don't have that, the other two qualities, intelligence and energy, are going to kill you.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.