Nothing is durable, I think anybody who thinks sex is durable is going to have a lot of grief.

Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.

The whole point to American journalism is what ought to be true is true.

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.

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.

I suspect that our own faith in psychiatry will seem as touchingly quaint to the future as our grandparents' belief in phrenology seems now to us.

By 1948, the Italians had begun to pull themselves together, demonstrating once more their astonishing ability to cope with disaster which is so perfectly balanced by their absolute inability to deal with success