The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.

Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to get a few words.

There are four stages to marriage. First there's the affair, then there's the marriage, then children, and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.

I hate everything which is not in myself.

Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.

The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again; it has perhaps not been here so intensely in thirty years, not since the Nazis were prospering, but it is coming back.

There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be.