Prevarication, like honesty, is reflexive, and soon becomes a sturdy habit, as reliable as truth.

The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.

In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell by cell.

Psychoanalysis and Zen, in my private psychic geometry, are equal to nicotine. They are anti-existential. Nicotine quarantines one out of existence.

The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution in the soul.

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

Fascism is more of a natural state than democracy. To assume blithely that we can export democracy into any country we choose can serve paradoxically to encourage more fascism at home and abroad. Democracy is a state of grace that is attained only by those countries who have a host of individuals not only ready to enjoy freedom but to undergo the heavy labor of maintaining it.