I usually need a can of beer to prime me.
God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so.
Alimony is the curse of the writing class.
We didn’t win the Cold War, we were just a big bank that bankrupted a smaller bank because we had an arms race that wiped the Russians out.
We’re all divided souls, we’ve got two natures in us, You measure schizophrenia not by the fact that you’re divided but how well the divisions speak to one another.
I no longer gave a sick dog’s drop for the wisdom, the reliability and the authority of the public’s literary mind, those creeps and old ladies of vested reviewing.
I guess all that’s left is to love the fire.
Existentialism is the kind of philosophy that makes for legendary children.
You don’t know a woman until you’ve met her in court.
You never do find out what makes you tick, and after a while it’s unimportant.
You can indulge your righteous rage but the things it comes out of are pretty cheap. The trick is to make yourself an instrument of your own policy. Whether you like it or not, that’s the highest effectiveness man has achieved.
We are all so guilty at the way we have allowed the world around us to become more ugly and tasteless every year that we surrender to terror and steep ourselves in it.
Harsh words live in the dungeon of the heart.
When the time comes, they won’t ask what kind of a Jew you are.
Every one of my books had killed me a little more.
No heart is so hard as the timid heart.
The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.
In such places as Greenwich Village, a menage-a-trois was completed- the bohemian and the juvenile delinquent came face-to-face with the Negro, and the hipster was a fact in American life.
The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.
We love those who can lead us to a place we will never reach without them.