She wasn't just beautiful. She was like the sun coming up: coming up giggling. She was giggling as if she had just remembered something funny.

She [Marilyn Monroe] was good at being inarticulately abstracted for the same reason that midgets are good at being short.

Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.

How much atonement is enough? The bombing must be allowed as at least part-payment: those of our young people who are concerned about the moral problem posed by the Allied air offensive should at least consider the moral problem that would have been posed if the German civilian population had not suffered at all.

I try to be specific. One thought at a time. Clear. Articulate. And above all, memorable, if you can be. You'd like to write phrases that people can't forget as soon as they read them.

I've got life for a subject because as life starts to drain away, you start seeing very clearly what life is, for the first time.

Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail.