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

Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.

Longing, the hope for fulfillment, is the one unwavering passion of the world's commerce.

Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.

Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.

Things that appear on the front page of the newspaper as 'fact' are far more dangerous than the games played by a novelist, and can lead to wars.

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