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

To a born-again atheist like myself, it is clear that each of us has multiple selves, talents, perceptions. But to the Roman Catholic, unity is all.

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

The only absolute attainment is absolute abandonment.

I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to write about marriage, because that's the most important thing there is for middle-class people.

Capote I truly loathed. The way you might loathe an animal. A filthy animal that has found its way into the house.