World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. but nothing is self-contained.

I don't consider myself paranoid at all. I think I see things exactly as they are.

It's impossible to write about the Kennedy assassination and its aftermath without taking note of twenty-five years of paranoia which has collected around that event.

I don't know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write about them.

Let's enjoy the aimless days while we still can.

Everything's a scandal. Dying's a scandal. But we all do it.

[I]n the American soul there is a lonely individual standing in a vast landscape. 
He is either on a horse or driving a car, depending, and either way he’s carrying a gun. 
This is one of the essential images in American mythology.