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

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

We affect one another quite enough merely by existing. Whenever the stars cross, or is it comets? fragments pass briefly from one orbit to another. On rare occasions there is total collision, but most often the two simply continue without incident, neither losing more than a particle to the other, in passing.

I’ve always said, ‘I have nothing to say, only to add.’ And it’s with each addition that the writing gets done. The first draft of anything is really just a track.

For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are more satisfactory than others, but where is credit due? To the designer of the camera? to the finger on the button? to the law of averages?

a writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist)

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.