There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

To blame the poor for subsisting on welfare has no justice unless we are also willing to judge every rich member of society by how productive he or she is. Taken individual by individual, it is likely that there's more idleness and abuse of government favors among the economically privileged than among the ranks of the disadvantaged.

If you can change style, why stick to one style? Style is a vanity because it gives you product identification.

There`s a tendency for Americans, particularly the simpler you are, the more you believe in the president as the kind of person to be.

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

The Barry Goldwater movement excited the depths because the apocalypse was brought more near, and like millions of other whites, I had been leading a life which was a trifle too pointless and a trifle too full of guilt and my gullet was close to nausea with the empty promises of an empty liberal center.

Part of living, part of becoming a wise man or a wise woman, is to get to that point where you can have a friend for whom you are genuinely happy when he or she has a success. That's tough. Very few people get to that point. With writers it's next to impossible. You can't really bless a writer who's as good as yourself.