My own feeling is that if adultery is wickedness then so is food. Both make me feel so much better afterward.
Society is more concerned with material possessions than it is with the true love and compassion of another human being.
Perhaps I am the turtle, able to live simply anywhere, even underwater for short periods, with my home on my back.
This country is being managed to death, being public related to death.
I do not say that children at war do not die like men, if they have to die. To their everlasting honor and our everlasting shame, they do die like men, thus making possible the manly jubilation of pat...
Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
In nonsense is strength
Maturity, the way I understand it, is knowing what your limitations are.
Simply moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a tho...
As for literary criticism in general: I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel or a play or a poem is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full...
So I went to New York City to be born again. It was and remains easy for most Americans to go somewhere else and start anew. I wasn't like my parents. I didn't have any supposedly sacred piece of land...
How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
The New York Daily News suggested that my biggest war crime was not killing myself like a gentleman. Presumably Hitler was a gentleman.
There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind.
I was a chemistry major, but I'm always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I've brought scientific thinking to literature. There's been very little gratitude for this.
If somebody says 'I love you' to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? 'I love you, too'.
We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
The Fourteenth Book is entitled, What can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years? It doesn't take long to read The Fourteenth Book. It consists of o...
God damn it, you've got to be kind.
I have never seen a more sublime demonstration of the totalitarian mind, a mind which might be linked unto a system of gears where teeth have been filed off at random. Such snaggle-toothed thought mac...
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