To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.

If the splitter of hairs has a sharp enough knife, the fact of life itself can be chopped into nothing.

I am a correctionist. If something is wrong in society, it must be fixed. At least one should try to fix it.

We have been at war almost constantly since the last century. And it has not helped our institutions. Congress no longer represents the people. The courts do not practice justice any more. The armies never stop playing at being the policemen of the world and of oil.

I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting.

I look into my own black heart.

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