You can only have a war with another country. You can't have a war with bad temper or a war against paranoids.

If you are at the mercy of what they call print interviews and the mercy of people who write about you, they can always tell lies.

Since the individual's desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining, the average man must take to daydreaming.

There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.

I have no social position and I stay away from what is known as society as much as possible.

Novels, except as aids to masturbation, play no part in contemporary life.

Without communism ... our state lacks a Wizard of Oz to terrify all the people all the time. So the state looks inward, at the true enemy, who turns out to be - who else? the people of the United States.