The moral duty of the free writer is to begin his work at home: to be a critic of his own community, his own country, his own government, his own culture. The more freedom the writer possesses, the greater the moral obligation to play the role of critic.

My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.

The nuclear bomb took all the fun out of war.

The feminist notion that the whole of human history has been nothing but a vast intricate conspiracy by men to enslave their wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters presents us with an intellectual neurosis for which we do not yet have a name.

When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.

Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.

The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature.