There has never been an 'original' sin: each is quite banal.

In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.

It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive.

The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.

I have written much about many good places. But the best places of all, I have never mentioned.

In the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood.

A good writer must have more than vin rosé in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink.