Most people are quiet in the world, and live in it tentatively, as if it were not their own.

The philosophical conservative is someone willing to pay the price of other people s suffering for his principles.

The Shadow had no imagination. He neither looked at naked women nor thought of ridding the world of dictators like Hitler or Mussolini.

A writer's life is so hazardous that anything he does is bad for him. Anything that happens to him is bad: failure's bad, success is bad; impoverishment is bad, money is very, very bad. Nothing good can happen... Except the act of writing.

Most people are quiet in the world, and live in it tentatively, as if it were not their own.

Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

The music of the Stones pounds the air like the amplified pulse of my erection.