To blame the poor for subsisting on welfare has no justice unless we are also willing to judge every rich member of society by how productive he or s….

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same..

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level..

One will feel the same subtle nausea coming into the city or waiting to depart from it that one feels now in such plastic catacombs as O'Hare's recep….

I've made an ass of myself so many times I often wonder if I am one..

Love asks us that we be a little braver than is comfortable, a little more generous, a little more flexible. It means living on the edge more than we….

I really am a pessimist. I've always felt that fascism is a more natural governmental condition than democracy. Democracy is a grace. It's something ….

We love those who can lead us to a place we will never reach without them..

Reaching consensus in a group is often confused with finding the right answer..

Since great writers communicate a vision of existence, one can't borrow their methods. The method is married to the vision..

Over-certified adjectives are the mark of most best-seller writing.

It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions..

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 ….

God is a creator, not a law giver..

A really good style comes only when a man has become as good as he can be. Style is character. A good style cannot come from a bad undisciplined char….

I never saw love as luck, as that gift from the gods which put everything else in place, and allowed you to succeed. No, I saw love as reward. One co….

Mailer's Law: A thing either gets better or it costs more to run it the way it was..

I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind..

Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child..

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension..

Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego..