Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

- Mary Mccarthy

Once the state is looked upon as the source of rights, rather than their bound protector, freedom becomes conditional on the pleasure of the state.

- Mary Mccarthy

The happy ending is our national belief.

- Mary Mccarthy

Anybody who has ever tried to rectify an injustice or set a record straight comes to feel that he is going mad.

- Mary Mccarthy

I shall never send for a priest or recite an Act of Contrition in my last moments. I do not mind if I lose my soul for all eternity. If the kind of G…

- Mary Mccarthy

We are the hero of our own story.

- Mary Mccarthy

The idea of Macbeth as a conscience-torm ented man is a platitude as false as Macbeth himself. Macbeth has no conscience. His main concern throughout…

- Mary Mccarthy

The relation between life and literature - a final antimony - is one of mutual plagiarism.

- Mary Mccarthy

You mustn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.

- Mary Mccarthy