No matter how wonderful a sentence is, if it doesn't add new and useful information, it should be removed.

I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer." "What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?

Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.

Suicide is the punctuation mark at the end of many artistic careers

I was a student in the Department of Anthropology. At that time, they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody. They may be teaching that still.

all that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a great depression. we may even be hiding a third world war

The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before.