All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.

Universities are filled with poets and novelists conducting demure and careful lives in imitation of Eliot and Forster and those others who (through what seems to be have been discretion) made it.

In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.

Since nothing is free, to each his price.

But women are always attracted to power. I do not think there could ever be a conqueror so bloody that most women would not willingly lie with him in the hope of bearing a son who would be every bit as ferocious as the father.

There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.

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.