In every operation there is an above the line and a below the line. Above the line is what you do by the book. Below the line is how you do the job.

If you see the world as gloomily as I see it, the only thing to do is laugh or shoot yourself.

Power expands through the distribution of secrecy.

America has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but this is the worst I can remember: worse than McCarthyism, worse than the Bay of Pigs and in the long term potentially more disastrous than the Vietnam War.

Luck's just another word for destiny... either you make your own or you're screwed.

There are moments which are made up of too much stuff for them to be lived at the time they occur.

Most of us live in a condition of secrecy: secret desires, secret appetites, secret hatreds and relationship with the institutions which is extremely intense and uncomfortable. These are, to me, a part of the ordinary human condition. So I don't think I'm writing about abnormal things. ... Artists, in my experience, have very little center. They fake. They are not the real thing. They are spies. I am no exception.