The contradictory remarks of politicians are forgotten; the more asinine predictions of pundits are buried with mercy.

Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.

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.

I guess all that's left is to love the fire.

Faction is that hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration.

The condition that is most disagreeable in your life becomes the most useful one. You know, I feel the same way about the U.S. Army. It was absolutely the worst experience of my life, and it was probably the single most valuable experience.

Culture is worth a little risk.