Leo Crowley, Harry [Truman]'s Foreign Economic Administrator, tells Congressmen the theory...: 'If you create good governments in foreign countries, automatically you will have better markets for ourselves.' With that honeycunt staring you in the face, you'd forget your grammar too.

Anyone at any age is able to tell the story of his or her life with authority.

We dress them [children] in the presumptions of the world. They are the bright small face of hope. They are the last belief we have, the belief in making them believe.

Time seems to me a drift, a shifting of sand. And my mind is shifting with it. I am wearing away.

I've always felt, as a writer, that radicals are fascinating because they're relations, they have a place in the American family. They're the relatives everyone wishes would go away. They're the embarrassments to decorum and good taste.

The voice of the Constitution is the inescapably solemn self-consciousness of the people giving the law unto themselves.

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.