The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes.

You can improve your talent, but your talent is a given, a mysterious constant. You must make it the best of its kind.

The worst that can be said about pornography is that it leads not to anti-social acts but to the reading of more pornography

Never offend an enemy in a small way.

Yet in a society of conflicting interests the only democratic way in which matters can be improved is through politics, and politics means the compromising of extremes in order to achieve that notorious half loaf which the passionate and the outraged never find sufficient.

Come to me and show me a small cancer and I'll tell you you've got a small cancer that should be cut out. That's realism but in America it's called cynicism.

When the Presidential virus attacks the system there is a tendency for the patient in his fever to move from the Right or the Left to the Center where the curative votes are.