He had supposed for years that he had no secrets from himself. Here was proof that he had a great big secret somewhere inside, and he could not imagi….

Freud said he didn't know what women wanted. I know what women want. They want a whole lot of people to talk to..

I had taught myself that a human being might as well look for diamond tiaras in the gutter as for rewards and punishments that were fair..

The crowd, having been promised nothing, felt cheated, having received nothing..

There were lots of things to stop and see-and then it was time to go, always time to go..

You become who you pretend to be..

there i was in late middle age, cut loose in a thoroughly looted, bankrupt nation whose assets had been sold off to foreigners, a nation swamped by u….

THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smart….

The Summer had died peacefully in its sleep, and Autumn, as soft-spoken executrix, was locking life up safely until Spring came to claim it..

Big, undreamed-of things — the people on the edge see them first..

There are too many of us and we are all too far apart..

But he is tired. He puts the pistol to his head again. He says, “I never asked to be born in the first place..

Having a yacht is a reason for being more cheerful than most..

Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for..

America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves..

Where do I get my ideas from? You might as well have asked that of Beethoven. He was goofing around in Germany like everybody else, and all of a sudd….

I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer." "What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?.

Why throw money at problems? That is what money is for. Should the nation's wealth be redistributed? It has been and continues to be redistributed to….

No art is possible without a dance with death..

One of [ways being lucky] was to go to school during the Great Depression because teaching became a plum job..

The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal..