Occupation: Novelist Birth: January 31, 1923 Death: November 10, 2007
One of the reasons the English got through all their falls and the loss of their empire, all their disasters, their strikes, their difficulties, thei….
People who live under fascism are not only miserable but they're full of shame. You just don't go in and inject democracy into them. They're half cra….
Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it..
...the indispensable requirement for a good newspaperman - as eager to tell a lie as the truth..
What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good ….
We live in a time which has created the art of the absurd. It is our art. It contains happenings, Pop art, camp, a theater of the absurd... Do we hav….
The Barry Goldwater movement excited the depths because the apocalypse was brought more near, and like millions of other whites, I had been leading a….
I can`t get excited about politics, but I love it as a game. Because what I love in politics - this is very selfish of me, but who cares - what I do ….
Simple narcissism gives the power of beasts to politicians, professional wrestlers and female movie stars..
There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in adver….
One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself th….
The women's movement is filled with tyrants, just as men's political movements are equally filled..
The century would seek to dominate nature as it had never been dominated, would attack the idea of war, poverty and natural catastrophe as never befo….
There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be..
Even an evil man can have principleshe can be true to his own evil, which is not always so easy..
I was now at a university in New York, a professor of existential psychology with the not inconsiderable thesis that magic, dread, and the perception….
We think of Marilyn who was every man's love affair with America. Marilyn Monroe who was blonde and beautiful and had a sweet little rinky-dink of a ….
...never have I subscribed to the doctrine of willful rejection of the world or its visual image. To the non-objectivist this act of impiety may be s….
I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses..
The Frenchman Jean-PaulSartre ... had a dialectical mind good as a machine for cybernetics, immense in its way, he could peel a nuance like an onion,….
The White Protestant's ultimate sympathy must be with science, factology, and committee rather than with sex, birth, heat, flesh, creation, the sweet….