Over-certified adjectives are the mark of most best-seller writing

Chicago was a town where nobody could forget how the money was made. It was picked up from floors still slippery with blood.

When the time comes, they won't ask what kind of a Jew you are.

Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts.

Like all men who are Napoleonic in their ambitionshe has instincts about the nature of growth, a lover's sense of the momentof crisis, and he knewhow costly is defeat when it is not soothed by greater consciousness, and how wasteful is the profit of victory when there is not the courage to employ it.

Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego.

The ultimate tendency of liberalism is vegetarianism.