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.

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

I'm a great believer in the hereafter, in karma, in reincarnation. It does make sense. I believe that God is not just a law-giver, but a creative artist. The greatest of all. And what characterises artists is that they want to redo their work. Maybe it didn't come off perfectly, so they want to see it done again, and improved. Reincarnation is a way for God to improve his earlier works.

If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.

Chicago was a town where nobody could forget how the money was made. It was picked up from floors still slippery with blood.

Harsh words live in the dungeon of the heart

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