Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego.
Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens the Devils to contest his vision.
The jeep would round the bend, be hit by a dozen bullets at once, and that would be the end of his petty history of unfocused groping and unimportant dissatisfactions.
So long as you use a knife, there’s some love left.
I cannot bear that chirpy Bobby Kennedy, always building his beaver’s nest with a few more facts. He needs to look into the abyss.
Love was here today and left us dry did we deserve Him?
Don’t bug me or I’ll gas you said the creep.
At the end of medicine is dope; at the end of life is death; at the end of man may be the Hell which arrives from the vanities of the mind.
If punishment is at all proportionate to the offense, then power becomes watered. The only way you generate the proper attitude of awe and obedience is through immense and disproportionate power.
You can’t change a single word. What is tensile strength? It is that all the components are working together. I repeat: You can’t change a single word. The best short stories are built on this premise.
I start with the idea of constructing a treehouse and end up with a skyscraper made of wood.
How his hatred seethed in search of a justifiable excuse.
The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.
Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.
There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.
I’ve made an ass of myself so many times I often wonder if I am one.
Being a real writer means being able to do the work on a bad day.
The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.
Any workout which does not involve a certain minimum of danger or responsibility does not improve the body – it just wears it out.