Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

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

Conservatives are people who look at a tree and feel instinctively that it is more beautiful than anything they can name. But when it comes to defending that tree against a highway, they will go for the highway.

The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world.

I do believe that America's deepest political sickness is that it is a self-righteous nation.

Three miles long and two streets wide, the town curls around the bay ... a gaudy run with Mediterranean splashes of color, crowded steep-pitched roofs, fishing piers and fishing boats whose stench of mackerel and gasoline is as aphrodisiac to the sensuous nose as the clean bar-whisky smell of a nightclub where call girls congregate.

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