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

Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

It is the difference between men and women, not the sameness, that creates the tension and the delight.

I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature.

Opera: I like it, except for all those howling sopranos and caterwauling tenors. (Why can't tenors sing like men?)

If industrial man continues to multiply his numbers and expand his operations he will succeed in his apparent intention, to seal himself off from the natural and isolate himself within a synthetic prison of his own making.

Why is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God is called development?