There are two kinds of brave men: those who are brave by the grace of nature, and those who are brave by an act of will.

The only faithfulness people have is to emotions they're trying to recapture

The novelist ... must live in paranoia and seek to be one with the world; he must be terrified of experience and hungry for it; he must think himself nothing and believe he is superior to all.

A democracy depends upon people getting brighter all the time. Democracies are delicate. They're not just ipso facto and just go on and on.

Every one of my books had killed me a little more.

The ultimate tendency of liberalism is vegetarianism.

To be married to a good woman is to live with tender surprise.