If the splitter of hairs has a sharp enough knife, the fact of life itself can be chopped into nothing.

The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with his private vision the deeds and thoughts of men. The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small 'yes' at the center of a vast 'no'.

God, or what have you, will not be found at the far end of a syllogism, no matter how brilliantly phrased or conceived.

American writers want to be not good but great; and so are neither.

Art is not a democracy, in fact art is the enemy of democracy

There is something about the state putting the power to bully into the hands of subnormal, sadistic apes that makes my blood boil.

Americans are not only a less homogenous population than we were when we were 3 million ex-colonists, but we're less educated. On top of that, we have constant misinformation and manipulation by media.