“You lose your manners when you're poor.”
“I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.”
“Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?”
“It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.”
“It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.”
“If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.”
“They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.”
“Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in nineteenth-century France and England, or twentieth-century Russia and America.”