Love and hate are so confused in your savage minds and the vibrations of the one are so very like those of the other that I can't always distinguish. You see, we neither love nor hate in my world. We simply have hobbies.

Before the word gay had really been invented, was there's no such thing. Only a country, basically as mindless about these matters - based upon our peasant superstitions, religious superstitions - would they make categories. Everybody's everything.

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

If you want to rise in politics in the United States, there is one subject you must stay away from, and that is politics.

It is astonishing to think that millions of people in my time—now, too, I suppose—actually thought that at a given moment in history two human beings had evolved to a higher state than that of all the gods that ever were or ever will be. This is titanism, as the Greeks would say. This is madness.

Most writers are middle-class and are the children of doctors or lawyers.

Then die. We must all do that. But die, as they say, game.