How could anything non-controversial be of intellectual interest to grown-ups?
J. Edgar Hoover, J. Bracken Lee, J. Parnell Thomas, J. Paul Getty -- you can always tell a shithead by that initial initial.
Books are like eggs -- best when fresh.
All power rests on hierarchy: An army is nothing but a well-organized lynch mob.
It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive.
Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved among somewhat livelier circles.