Who said “Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of…”?

“Folks never understand the folks they hate.”

“"Understanding being nothing else, but conception caused by Speech."”

“If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.”

“Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.”

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.”

“When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.”

“Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.”

“A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!”

“Undermining experience, embellishing experience, rearranging and enlarging experience into a species of mythology.”

“I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't.”

“I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you -- it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.”