Patterned after an Italian Renaissance palace, it is 88 times as large and one millionth as valuable to the continuation of man. that Pentagon of traveling salesmen.
The greater the power of any subjective state, the more total is a Romantic’s assumption that everyone understands exactly what he is about to do, therefore waste not a moment by stopping to tell them.
What’s the use of being a writer if you can’t irritate a great many people?
Every time a story about me appears in a newspaper, I am injured professionally.
The fact that we’ve been a great democracy doesn’t mean we will automatically keep being one if we keep waving the flag.
Dying can’t be all that difficult-up to now everyone has managed to do it.
Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to get a few words.
Madness is locked beneath. It goes into tissues, is swallowed by the cells. The cells go mad. Cancer is their flag. Cancer is thegrowth of madness denied.
A nation fights well in proportion to the amount of men and materials it has. And the other equation is that the individual soldier in that army is a more effective soldier the poorer his standard of living has been in the past.
People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don’t understand something in our past, we are therefore crippled.
If God is all good, then He is not all powerful. If God is all powerful, then He is not all good. I am a disbeliever is the omnipotence of God because of the Holocaust. But for 35 years, I have been believing that He is doing the best he can.
Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic.
I did like Robert Vavra’s book not only for its so very good photographs but for the text as well. He’s no ordinary fellow, obviously...
I don’t hate women, but I think they should be kept in cages.
MIke Lee writes with honesty, penetration, wit and the ability to surprise the reader with an unexpected turn from time to time that enriches the experience.
Movies are more likely than literature to reach deep feelings in people.
When a novel comes, it’s a grace. Something in the cosmos has forgiven you long enough so that you can start.
The true religion of America has always been America.
No physical activity is so vain as boxing. A man gets into the ring to attract admiration. In no sport, therefore, can you be more humiliated.
The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again.