“The writer is not only the conscience of the world, but also its nightmare.”

“Disclosure and realization of potential are not only the basis of human happiness but also a duty to conscience and society.”

“Your only responsibility as a writer is to be true to the story that has chosen you as its writer.”

“The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.”

“The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.”

“A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.”

“Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.”

“Writers who are also artist's only think of themselves as truly living when they are engaged in their sweet labour.”

“[Corporations must manifest in this area a conscience, or be required to] accept direction from the conscience of the government. This conscience must be built into institutions so that it can be invoked as a right by the individuals and interests subject to the corporate power… For twentieth-century capitalism will justify itself not only by its out-turn product, but by its content of life values.”

“The great writers to whom the world owes what religious liberty it possesses, have mostly asserted freedom of conscience as an indefeasible right, and denied absolutely that a human being is accountable to others for his religious belief.”