Everything wrong with America led to the point where the country built that tower of Babel, which consequently had to be destroyed. And then came the next shock. We had to realize that the people that did this were brilliant. It showed that the ego we could hold up until September 10 was inadequate.

Over the years, I've found one rule. It is the only one I give on those occasions when I talk about writing. A simple rule. If you tell yourself you are going to be at your desk tomorrow, you are by that declaration asking your unconscious to prepare the material. You are, in effect, contracting to pick up such valuables at a given time. Count on me, you are saying to a few forces below: I will be there to write.

The mark of mediocrity is to look for precedent.

If only gravity were working, the path would be symmetrical, it is the wind resistance that produces the tragic curve.

God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so.

Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.

The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.