I wish I'd been a mixed infant.

God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.

Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.

A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.

They took away our land, our language, and our religion; but they could never harness our tongues.

New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat.

I am a drinker with writing problems.