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

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

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

Since great writers communicate a vision of existence, one can't borrow their methods. The method is married to the vision.

The true religion of America has always been America.

Like all men who are Napoleonic in their ambitionshe has instincts about the nature of growth, a lover's sense of the momentof crisis, and he knewhow costly is defeat when it is not soothed by greater consciousness, and how wasteful is the profit of victory when there is not the courage to employ it.

Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic.