The true religion of America has always been America.

The fact that we've been a great democracy doesn't mean we will automatically keep being one if we keep waving the flag.

Murder offers the promise of vast relief. It is never unsexual.

I did like Robert Vavra's book not only for its so very good photographs but for the text as well. He's no ordinary fellow, obviously.

People who are greedy have extraordinary capacities for waste-they must, they take in too much.

There are days when I'll wake up and think, oh, I've really been something. You know, it won't be the same without me. And then there are days when I wake up and I say, 'Don't kid yourself. Your contribution was minimal. You changed very little. Everything you hated prospered'.

Since great writers communicate a vision of existence, one can't borrow their methods. The method is married to the vision.