Without alienation, there can be no politics.

I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find you coming through some door.

The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes.

Few occasions are as joyous to small children as funerals, almost better than the big wedding blowouts that take place at night when it's hard to stay awake. A small boy will never be harshly criticized at a funeral; he is more treasured as death comes close and all his wickedness vanishes before the inescapable fact that thank God, he is healthy.

The word "now" is like a bomb through the window, and it ticks.

In America, any man who is not a reactionary in his views is open to the charge of alliance with the Red hell.

The famous are balloons far up in the sky, to be envied for their quiet freedom or shot down as enemies.