Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today.

There are only two kinds of books -- good books and the others. The good are winnowed from the bad through the democracy of time.

Women: We cannot love them all. But we must try.

Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.

It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written.

Spartacus, like Jesus, was also crucified by the Romans. And for equally good reasons.

It may be true that my desk here is really 'nothing but' a transient eddy of electrons in the flux of universal process. Nevertheless, I find that it continues to support my feet, my revolver, and my cigars all day long. What happens when my back is turned I don't know. Or much care. That's no concern of mine.