With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.

I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.

Existentialism is the kind of philosophy that makes for legendary children.

When a novel comes, it's a grace. Something in the cosmos has forgiven you long enough so that you can start.

Prevarication, like honesty, is reflexive, and soon becomes a sturdy habit, as reliable as truth.

...the indispensable requirement for a good newspaperman - as eager to tell a lie as the truth.

Bright was the light of my last martini on my moral horizon