If mankind is naturally good, he is sure going against his nature more and more of the time. It sounds like a bad joke: the paranoids are after us.

- Herbert Gold

Isolation from power makes men look for a mob in which they can be strong.

- Herbert Gold

He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast.

- Herbert Gold

The fact that all of us die anyway (the rumor turns out to be true) is a mere detail in the celestial glow of imagination. The artist's eyes destroy …

- Herbert Gold

With short stories, the story-teller must have a story to tell, not merely some sweet prose to take out for a walk

- Herbert Gold

To construct a proper privacy, making it a privilege rather than a burden, we first need to construct a community-love, family, politics, art.

- Herbert Gold

Being a writer is a rather hazardous occupation and there is a horribly high rate of writers who barely have the money for the paper and pen they use…

- Herbert Gold

The magic will which makes us see the other side of our natures-dream and disaster, catastrophe and fulfillment-is the great permanent challenge of h…

- Herbert Gold

Catastrophe and desire are linked in our lives as the moon is linked to that reflected light from the sun which enables the eye to see it.

- Herbert Gold