Without alienation, there can be no politics.

You cant get very far in this world without your dossier being there first.

The culture of the United States has flooded the world. It's the inevitable result of a powerful culture, art. We've got an instinctive touch when it comes to the popular mind because we've had no aristocracy. It is a democratic country. And we know without knowing it, without bothering to understand it, how to reach ordinary people, sometimes with the most vulgar, worthless junk on the face of the earth, but we know how to do it [laughter].

Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.

...When the government goes into the business of destroying trust, it goes into the business of destroying itself.

The world is always ending; the exact date depends on when you came into it.

Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.