a writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist)

The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.

Nothing is durable, I think anybody who thinks sex is durable is going to have a lot of grief.

On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.

I do not admire 'the people,' as such. No one really does. Their folk wisdom is usually false, their instincts predatory. Even their sense of survival - so highly developed in the individual - goes berserk in the mass. A crowd is a fool.

For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.

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.