The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.

The very day after I learned that I was the laureate for literature for 1983 I drove into a country town and parked my car where I should not. I only left the …

'Aren't there any grownups at all?' 'I don't think so.' The fair boy said this solemnly; but then the delight of a realized ambition overcame him. In the middl…

Basically I'm an optimist. Intellectually I can see man's balance is about fifty-fifty, and his chances of blowing himself up are about one to one. I can't see…

I knew Richard [Wright] and I loved him. [...] I was not attacking him; I was trying to clarify something for myself.

Of this story I can say that it came to me in an irresistible form, crying to be written. It will be accused perhaps of being a mere piece of sentimentality, b…

Since Hitchens evidently does not take what he is writing seriously, there is no reason for anyone else to do so.