Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.

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.

I am not here only so that the blind might see, but to teach those who thought they could see that they are blind

Reagan bankrupted the Soviet Union by increasing armaments.

Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another.

I no longer gave a sick dog's drop for the wisdom, the reliability and the authority of the public's literary mind, those creeps and old ladies of vested reviewing.

America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.