Novels, except as aids to masturbation, play no part in contemporary life.

The period of Prohibition - called the noble experiment - brought on the greatest breakdown of law and order the United States has known until today. I think there is a lesson here. Do not regulate the private morals of people. Do not tell them what they can take or not take. Because if you do, they will become angry and antisocial and they will get what they want from criminals who are able to work in perfect freedom because they have paid off the police.

For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.

From the age of 1 to 6 there is a small percentage that is exclusively homosexual, a small percentage heterosexual and there's a wide band in the middle of people who respond to various stimuli. A little bit here, a little more there.

Love, like a sense of humor, is now claimed by everyone even though Love, like a sense of humor, is rather more rare than not, and to most of us poor muddlers unbearable at full strength.

Where there is no desire or pursuits, there is no wholeness. But there are satisfying lesser states, fragments.

Vitriolic is a needless and malign attack on something, excessive attack on something. It is a rather pointless thing to do.