That sinister Stonehenge of economic man, Rockefeller Center.

The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations.

In a perfect union the man and woman are like a strung bow. Who is to say whether the string bends the bow, or the bow tightens the string?

Believing in Hell must distort every judgement on this life.

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