Is it not better for a man never to have been born?Certaintly not The response was brisk. Just to be able to study the sky is reason enough to be alive.Unfortunately, I can't see the sky.Then listen t...
FBI slaughter of the innocents at Waco was a model Jacobin enterprise.
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
A good deed never goes unpunished.
Say very mildly, we have only one political party in the U.S., the Property Party, with two right wings, Republican and Democrat.
You can't break eggs without making an omelet, said Butler sententiously.
To turn life into words is to make life yours to do with as you please, instead of the other way round
In the twentieth century, science has been everything and the arts almost nothing by comparison. As a result, many artists now pretend to be scientists. They try to imitate the strategies of science....
Dr. Bogart was about to tell me more when William de la Touche Clancey sat down next to me with an insolent crash (do I resemble a country youth because I am small?)
But then we are old and have been to the wars and value our fast-diminishing freedoms unlike those jingoes now beating their tom-toms in Times Square in favor of all-out war for other Americans to fig...
All over Greece, strangers of a certain age will greet one another with the question, And where were you and what did you do when Xerxes came to Marathon? Then they exchange lies.
Presidents have absolutely gone against the will of Congress. Congress hasn't declared a war since December 7, 1941, and yet we've been at war ever since with somebody or other in order to justify the...
I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place
The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
When Kennedy got his highest rating after the debacle of the Bay of Pigs, he observed, characteristically, It would seem that the worse you fuck up in this job the more popular you get.
We are in danger of government by professional office-holders …
The next week both small pox and the bloody flux began to go through the camp. General Washington maintained that the flux came from drinking new cider. But the cider-drinking continued, and so for th...
Since I am a loyal American, I am not supposed to tell you why this has taken place, but then it is not usual for us to examine why anything happens; we simply accuse others of motiveless malignity. W...
Now-a-days lower Broadway is blocked with traffic at this hour and everyone walks; even the decrepit John Jacob Astor can be seen crawling along the street like some ancient snail, his viscous track t...
Marietta, I do not believe in ghosts, astrology, palmistry, graphology, John Cage, love or God. I do believe in the moment, in the pleasures of the flesh, of conversation, of art-at least for the few...