I am the Raskolnikov of jerking off – the sticky evidence is everywhere!.

A Jewish man with his parents alive is half the time a helpless infant!.

The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress..

One either imposes one's ideas or one is imposed on..

The secret to living in the rush of the world with a minimum of pain is to get as many people as possible to string along with your delusions..

When you decide 'to be a writer,' you don't have the faintest idea of what the work is like. When you begin, you write spontaneously out of your limi….

Let's hope the first comes first..

Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the p….

You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn't annihilate human nature..

And as he spoke, I was thinking, 'the kind of stories that people turn life into, the kind of lives people turn stories into..

It’s amazing what lies people can sustain behind the mask of their real faces..

Suicide is the role you write for yourself. You inhabit it and you enact it. All carefully staged -- where they will find you and how they will find ….

I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discre….

The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy ? that is every man?s tragedy..

The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wro….

American society [...] not only sanctions gross and unfair relations among men, but it encourages them. Now, can that be denied? No. Rivalry, competi….

Any satirist writing a futuristic novel who had imagined a President Reagan during the Eisenhower years would have been accused of perpetrating a pie….

I am marked like a road map from head to toe with my repressions. You can travel the length and breadth of my body over superhighways of shame and in….

A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home,….

The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic..

There is truth and then again there is truth. For all that the world is full of people who go around believing they've got you or your neighbor figur….