If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts a….

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

If there really had been a Mercutio, and if there really were a Paradise, Mercutio might be hanging out with teenage Vietnam draftee casualties now, ….

A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society..

The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before..

If I were a younger man, I would write a history of human stupidity; and I would climb to the top of Mount McCabe and lie down on my back with my his….

There is nothing left of him but curiosity and a pair of eyes..

Until you die .. it's all life..

During the Vietnam War, which lasted longer than any war we've ever been in - and which we lost - every respectable artist in this country was agains….

War is now a form of TV entertainment, and what made the First World War so particularly entertaining were two American inventions, barbed wire and t….

I still catch myself feeling sad about things that don’t matter anymore..

My father said, ‘When in doubt, castle.’.

You were sick, but now you're well again, and there's work to do..

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..

Anyone unable to understand how useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either..

When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth..

Why were so many Americans treated by their government as though their lives were as disposable as facial tissues? Because that was the way authors ….

I can have oodles of charm when I want to..

Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey..

All people are insane. They will do anything at any time, and God help anybody who looks for reasons..

Social class means a hell of a lot and upper class people - no matter how well [Franklin ] Roosevelt did - it was stylish to hate him..