There's no such thing as a war against terrorism. It's idiotic. These are slogans. These are lies. It's advertising, which is the only art form we ever invented and developed.

The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.

It is curious how often one prefers his enemies to his friends.

Astronauts: rotarians in outer space.

There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.