I have absolutely no doubt that there is an intense anti-Americanism in all Western Europe, and I think the reason for that is a very, very simple one.

If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner.

Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.

In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon.

I regard myself as a religious... the temper of my mind as religious, and because I regard the temper of my mind as religious, I am profoundly skeptical about any form of human authority, any form of human self-importance.

All of us admire people we don't like and like people we don't admire.

I never met a rich man who was happy, but I have only very occasionally met a poor man who did not want to become a rich man.