The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small 'yes' at the center of a vast 'no.'

We must always remember that the police are recruited from the criminal classes.

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

The New York Times is the worst in that hardly anybody can write English over there. Most of it reads like slight translations from the German.

I believe it's my pastoral duty to convert friends to atheism.

I'm a much worse guest than I am a host, and I'm not an awfully good host either. I really like being alone.

There was more of a flow to my output of writing in the past, certainly. Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, "Well, so-and-so will like this," which you do when you're younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.