Occupation: Novelist Birth: December 29, 1922 Death: December 16, 1998
That's what I can't stand. I know I'll bounce back, and that's what I can't stand..
If it is not beautiful for someone, it does not exist..
We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are..
I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there….
What's any artist, but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around. What's left of the man when the work's done but a shambles o….
That was Youth with its reckless exuberance when all things were possible pursued by Age where we are now, looking back at what we destroyed, what we….
We want someone to bring us the news..
It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least..
Power doesn't corrupt people; people corrupt power..
...mementos of this world, in which the things worth being were so easily exchanged for the things worth having..
Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance..
Everybody has that feeling when they look at a work of art and it's right, that sudden familiarity, a sort of...recognition, as though they were crea….
Say a word, say a thousand to me on the telephone and I shall choose the wrong one to cling to as though you had said it after long deliberation when….
What’s any artist, but the dregs of his work?.
Tragedy was foresworn, in ritual denial of the ripe knowledge that we are drawing away from one another, that we share only one thing, share the fear….
He was doing missionary work. But from the outset he had little success in convincing his charges of their responsibility for a sin committed at the ….
Why do you treat me as they do, as though I were exactly what I want to be. Why do we treat people that way?.
I mean why should somebody go steal and break the law to get all they can when there's always some law where you can be legal and get it all anyway!.
If you want to make a million you don't have to understand money, what you have to understand is people's fears about money.
Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law..
He walked out into the cold morning asking himself this heretical question: Can you start measuring a minute at any instant you wish?.