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

Television is coitus interruptus brought into aesthetics.

You're gambling with something vital. Most writers get smashed egos.

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

We're all divided souls, we've got two natures in us, You measure schizophrenia not by the fact that you're divided but how well the divisions speak to one another.

Growth is a greater mystery than death. All of us can understand failure, we all contain failure and death within us, but not even the successful man can begin to describe the impalpable elations and apprehensions of growth.

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.