To defend oneself against a fear is simply to insure that one will, one day, be conquered by it; fears must be faced.

Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty - necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels.

Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst, a fraud. No other city is so spitefully incoherent.

You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.

A man's balance depends on the weight he carries between his legs.

It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.

There are people in the world for whom "coming along" is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.