If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.

I think the internet is the greatest waste of time since masturbation was discovered.

The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.

To blame the poor for subsisting on welfare has no justice unless we are also willing to judge every rich member of society by how productive he or she is. Taken individual by individual, it is likely that there's more idleness and abuse of government favors among the economically privileged than among the ranks of the disadvantaged.

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

God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so.

Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.