I hate everything which is not in myself..

Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never….

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..

America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in….

The ultimate tendency of liberalism is vegetarianism..

Existentialism is the kind of philosophy that makes for legendary children..

I had the idea that there were two worlds. There was a real world as I called it, a world of wars and boxing clubs and children'shomes on back street….

The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation..

So you come soon to power, but you have merely inherited the crisis and yours is the profit of cancer..

If you can change style, why stick to one style? Style is a vanity because it gives you product identification..

The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety..

The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder..

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing..

There are days when I'll wake up and think, oh, I've really been something. You know, it won't be the same without me. And then there are days when I….

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..

Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to get a few words..

There`s a tendency for Americans, particularly the simpler you are, the more you believe in the president as the kind of person to be..

We divorced ourselves from the materials of the earth, the rock, the wood, the iron ore; we looked to new materials which were cooked in vats, long c….

Movies are more likely than literature to reach deep feelings in people..

I guess all that's left is to love the fire..

Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men..