It occurs to me that with all the television people watch, most of their acquaintances are actors.
The world is always ending; the exact date depends on when you came into it.
THE PRICE grew out of a need to reconfirm the power of the past, the seedbed of current reality, and the way to possibly reaffirm cause and effect in an insane world.
Poor brain! How helplessly it dissolves when willing eyes meet and the nose warms to those old jungle scents.
Nevertheless, one learned very early that books had to be respected; they were all putative Bibles and to some small degree had a share in holiness.
The famous are balloons far up in the sky, to be envied for their quiet freedom or shot down as enemies.
Down deep in His heart God is a comedian who loves to make us laugh.
How to live had started out as an analytical problem of how to place himself so as to intercept the flow of money in the society.
In America, any man who is not a reactionary in his views is open to the charge of alliance with the Red hell.
Memory inevitably romanticizes, pressing reality to recede like pain.
One can’t stand forever on the shore. At some point, filled with indecision, skepticism, reservation and doubt, you either jump in or concede that life is forever elsewhere.
The brain heals the past like an injury...
I would be twenty before I learned how to be fifteen, thirty before I knew what it meant to be twenty, and now at seventy-two I have to stop myself from thinking like a man of fifty who has plenty of time ahead.
I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.
A little man makes a mistake and they hang him by the thumbs; the big ones become ambassadors.
I’m sure there are writers who are great businessmen, but I never met any.
You cant get very far in this world without your dossier being there first.
It is time that we, who are without kings, took up this bright thread of our history and followed it to the only place it can possibly lead in our time-the heart and spirit of the average man.
A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence.
Whoever is writing in the United States is using the American Dream as an ironical pole of his story. People elsewhere tend to accept, to a far greater degree anyway, that the conditions of life are hostile to mans pretensions.