I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget.

Immortality is like trying to carve your initials in a block of ice in the middle of July.

... so many tremendous decisions in life are made because it is five o'clock.

Try to keep the rebel artist alive in you, no matter how attractive or exhausting the temptation.

Whoever is writing in the United States is using the American Dream as an ironical pole of his story. People elsewhere tend to accept, to a far greater degree anyway, that the conditions of life are hostile to mans pretensions.

I still feel-kind of temporary about myself.

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