Misguided good men are more dangerous than honest bad men. It is because they are seen as good that, in and by good conscience, the mob will always, stubbornly back them without question.

There is nothing more gracious than genuinely embracing other people's good fortune. It will work for you when your time comes.

Writers need each other.

I'd never be where I am if more successful writers hadn't taken an interest in me and done me a good turn.

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied...but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which as beggar is a reminder of nothing.

The final aim of any temptation is to bring a person back into the kingdom of darkness.