General Sayings

I was devastated when I saw how the web was being misused.

Numbers rule the universe.

All I am is literature, and I am not able to be anything else.

I am a man of letters, a man of words.

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

The object of power is power.

The African is lazy, crafty, negligent, and governed by caprice.

Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult.

The heart is the beginning of life; the sun of the microcosm.

Most human beings are dead, in fact, though they may not know it.

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.

I do not know what I have done to deserve such persecution.

I have seen the future and it is wireless.

That's the whole burden of this novel—the loss of certainties.

He who awaits much can expect little.

Vitamin C is the most important of all vitamins.

Don't talk to me about justice. I'm a man of letters, not a judge.

If you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.

I'm not a victim. I'm a survivor. And I'm not going to be a victim of America, or of racism, or of sexism, or of ageism, or of any other -ism.

I dislike everything that is not in good taste, and good taste is simply the art of being able to live with bad taste.