When the time comes, they won't ask what kind of a Jew you are.

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

What's the use of being a writer if you can't irritate a great many people?

We love those who can lead us to a place we will never reach without them.

A high church for the true mediocre.

The White Protestant's ultimate sympathy must be with science, factology, and committee rather than with sex, birth, heat, flesh, creation, the sweet and the funky; they must vote, manipulate, control, and direct, these Protestants who are the center of power in our land, they must go for what they believe is reason when it is only the Square logic of the past.

Great sex is apocalyptic. There is no such thing as great sex unless you have an apocalyptic moment.