There is probably no heterosexual alive who is not preoccupied with his latent homosexuality..

Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of televis….

Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts..

Comfortless was my religion, anxiety of the anxieties, for I believed God was not love, but courage. Love came only as a reward..

Horror films do not prepare us for the hours lost in searching after one clear thought..

I usually need a can of beer to prime me..

I met Jack Kennedy in November, 1946... We went out on a double date and it turned out to be a fair evening for me. I seduced a girl who would have b….

The paradox is that no love can prove so intense as the love of two narcissists for each other..

It all comes down to who does the dishes..

The contradictory remarks of politicians are forgotten; the more asinine predictions of pundits are buried with mercy..

Chicago was a town where nobody could forget how the money was made. It was picked up from floors still slippery with blood..

You have the right to speak your mind..

There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you..

Conservatives are people who look at a tree and feel instinctively that it is more beautiful than anything they can name. But when it comes to defend….

I think the internet is the greatest waste of time since masturbation was discovered..

No heart is so hard as the timid heart..

Chicago is the great American city, New York is one of the capitals of the world, and Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic; San Francisco is a l….

There's that popular misconception of man as something between a brute and an angel. Actually man is in transit between brute and God..

And so I ask, "Would You agree that sex is where philosophy begins?" But God, who is the oldest of the philosophers, answers in his weary cryptic way….

It's very bad to write a novel by act of will. I can do a book of nonfiction work that way - just sign the contract and do the book because, provided….

When a novel comes, it's a grace. Something in the cosmos has forgiven you long enough so that you can start..