Let the meek inherit the earth -- they have it coming to them.

Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.

Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised

Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.

Until a man can quit talking loudly to himself in order to shout down the memories of blunderings and gropings, he is in no shape for the painstaking examination of distress.

Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

Love is blind, but desire just doesn't give a good goddamn