I say the same thing about the death of James Wait. "Oh, well -- he wasn't going to write the Beethoven's Ninth Symphony anyway..

There is no good reason good can't triumph over evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the mafia..

Socialism" is no more an evil word than "Christianity." Socialism no more prescribed Joseph Stalin and his secret police and shuttered churches than ….

I love you, Eliza,” I said. She thought about it. “No,” she said at last, “I don’t like it.” “Why not?” I said. “It’s as though you were pointing a g….

I couldn't help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for--to find out how much a man could take without breaking..

Everything about life is a joke. Don't you know that?.

Of course, socialism is just evil now. It's completely discredited supposedly by the collapse of the Soviet Union, but I can't help noticing that my ….

There is no peace, I'm sorry to say. We find it. We lose it. We find it again. We lose it again..

The system promotes to the top those who don't care about the planet..

If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC.

Educating a beautiful woman is like pouring honey into a fine Swiss watch: everything stops..

Nietzsche had a little one-liner on how to choose a wife. He said, ''Are you willing to have a conversation with this woman for the next forty years?….

There was a time when I could vote for economic justice, and I can't anymore..

There was a still life on Billy's bedside table-two pills, an ashtray with three lipstick-stained cigarettes in it, one cigarette still burning, and ….

He had the air of a spy in a melodrama, missing nothing, liking nothing, looking forward to the great day when everything would be turned upside down..

Life is no way to treat an animal..

Be patient. Your future will come to you and lie down at your feet like a dog who knows and loves you no matter what you are..

Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt..

You don't do art for any other reason than to help your soul grow..

What is my definition of jazz? "Safe sex of the highest order.".

Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them in order that the reader may see what they ar….