Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.

The Barry Goldwater movement excited the depths because the apocalypse was brought more near, and like millions of other whites, I had been leading a life which was a trifle too pointless and a trifle too full of guilt and my gullet was close to nausea with the empty promises of an empty liberal center.

Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.

The sole virtue of losing your short-term memory is that it does free you to be your own editor.

Boredom slays more of existence than war.

The mark of mediocrity is to look for precedent.

We have an absolute right in a democracy to argue about a war.