For true happiness, it is not enough to be successful oneself . . . one's friends must fail.

I liked the trichotomy, that's the only thing I ever liked.

Monotheism is easily the greatest disaster to befall the human race.

Freud did some serious damage to American literature - a lot of writers began therapy in the 1940s, after which they all became terribly egocentric.

By and large, serious fiction was the work of victims who portrayed victims for an audience of victims who, it was oddly assumed, would want to see their lives realistically portrayed.

Ultimately, totalitarianism is the only sort of politics that can truly serve the sky-god's purpose. Any movement of a liberal nature endangers his authority and that of his delegates on earth. One God, one King, one Pope, one master in the factory, one father-leader in the family at home.

I don't see us winning the war. We have made enemies of one billion Muslims.