In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.

The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

The books I haven't written are better than the books other people have.

Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.

When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.