The party of God and the party of Literature have more in common than either will admit their texts may conflict, but their bigotries coincide. Both insist on being the sole custodians of the true word and its only interpreters.

During the years when the barely educated immigrants were being replaced by barely educated native sons, Hollywood . . . proved a more reliable, cost-effective means of securing world domination than any nuclear arsenal or diplomatic démarche.

At last, after innumerable glamorous and frightful years, mankind approaches a war which is totally predictable from beginning to end.

The party of God and the party of Literature have more in common than either will admit their texts may conflict, but their bigotries coincide. Both insist on being the sole custodians of the true word and its only interpreters.

People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice.

I could do without sex. Don't really like it that much. If I could just feel complete.

Talk isn't work. Work is when you have pages in the evening that you didn't have in the morning.