Commercialism is doing well that which should not be done at all.

If Henry Miller often sounded like a village idiot, it is because, like Whitman, he was the rest of the village as well.

There are a great many people who have a vested interest in maintaining the stupidity of the American public.

I was the first - I was extremely unpopular with the establishment of the United States, particularly the New York Times was always an enemy, and Time magazine, off and on, the enemy, because I said things and took positions that other people didn't do.

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.

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

The ideal to which John Adams subscribed-that we would be a nation of laws, not of men-was quickly subverted when the churches forced upon everyone, through supposedly neutral and just laws, their innumerable taboos on sex, alcohol, gambling. We are now indeed a nation of laws, mostly bad and certainly antihuman.