Only another writer can know how much damage writing a novel can do to you. It's an unnatural activity to sit at a desk and squeeze words out of yourself.

Everything wrong with America led to the point where the country built that tower of Babel, which consequently had to be destroyed. And then came the next shock. We had to realize that the people that did this were brilliant. It showed that the ego we could hold up until September 10 was inadequate.

Boredom slays more of existence than war.

Writing for a newspaper is like running a revolutionary war. You go to battle not when you are ready, but when action offers itself.

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

So you come soon to power, but you have merely inherited the crisis and yours is the profit of cancer.

No heart is so hard as the timid heart.