In this world, God must serve the Devil.
What greater comfort does time afford, than the objects of terror re-encountered, and their fraudulence exposed in the flash of reason?
Someone had already remarked that Bruckner had been Hitler’s favorite composer, someone else, that there was something wrong with any young person who really enjoyed the late Beethoven; someone had al...
Each generation was a rehearsal of the one before, so that that family gradually formed the repetitive pattern of a Greek fret, interrupted only once in two centuries by a nine-year-old boy who had ta...
That's what I can't stand. I know I'll bounce back, and that's what I can't stand.
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!
Get a black suit and just freeload, problem it's too God damned late now even to be any of the things I never wanted to be.
Mementos of this world, in which the things worth being were so easily exchanged for the things worth having.
Money? in a voice that rustled.
Are a good thing for America, they help keep the homosexuals off the streets.
Women get desperate, but they don't understand despair.
When he was left alone, when he had pulled out one stop after another (for the work required it), Stanley straightened himself on the seat, tightened the knot of the red necktie, and struck. The music...
Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience.
Originality is a device that untalented people use to impress other untalented people, and protect themselves from talented people . . .
Of course, if Saint Peter could come out today upon these streets below he would find all he could wish, voices from nowhere, music from unpopulated boxes, men ascending divine distances in gas balloo...
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 beginning of creation, one which, as they understoo...
He walked out into the cold morning asking himself this heretical question: Can you start measuring a minute at any instant you wish?
Go out among them and tell them that their nostalgia for places they have never been is sex,
Where would Christianity be today if Jesus had been given ten to twenty with time off for good behavior
We've had the goddam Ages of Faith, we've had the goddam Age of Reason. This is the Age of Publicity