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.
I don’t trust a man who uses the word evil eighteen times in ten minutes. If you’re half evil, nothing soothes you more than to think the person you are opposed to is totally evil.
Tough guys don’t dance. You had better believe it.
The paradox is that no love can prove so intense as the love of two narcissists for each other.
The only faithfulness people have is to emotions they’re trying to recapture.
The contradictory remarks of politicians are forgotten; the more asinine predictions of pundits are buried with mercy.
It’s not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway.
I don’t want to retire. I’m not that good at crossword puzzles.
Culture’s worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we’re all totalitarian beasts.