(1904-1991) Polish-born American Journalist, Writer

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.


Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.


The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.


We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.