It really takes a hero to live any kind of spiritual life without religious belief.

If one means by style the voice, the irreducible and always recognizable and alive thing, then of course style is really everything.

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that - how to express this - you really must make the self.

The consumer today is the victim of the manufacturer who launches on him a regiment of products for which he must make room in his soul.

Feminism is ridiculous. Feminists are silly idealists who want to be on top. There is no real equality in sexual relationships - someone always wins.

Proscription, martial law, the billeting of the rude troops, the tax collector, the unjust judge, anything at all, is sweeter than responsibility.

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process