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

What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.

Being a real writer means being able to do the work on a bad day.

Chicago is the great American city, New York is one of the capitals of the world, and Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic; San Francisco is a lady

It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.

There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements.

A really good style comes only when a man has become as good as he can be. Style is character. A good style cannot come from a bad undisciplined character.