The paradox is that no love can prove so intense as the love of two narcissists for each other.

I take it for granted that there's a side of me that loves public action, and there's another side of me that really wants to be alone and work and write. And I've learned to alternate the two as matters develop.

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

There`s a tendency for Americans, particularly the simpler you are, the more you believe in the president as the kind of person to be.

And so I ask, "Would You agree that sex is where philosophy begins?" But God, who is the oldest of the philosophers, answers in his weary cryptic way, "Rather think of Sex as Time, and Time as the connection of new circuits.

Part of the oncoming demise (of New York during its terrible fiscal crisis) is that none of us can simply believe it. We were always the best and the strongest of cities, and our people were vital to the teeth. Knock them down eight times and they would get up with that look in the eye which suggests the fight has barely begun.

Left-wingers are incapable of conspiring because they are all egomaniacs.