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

Boredom slays more of existence than war.

Movies are more likely than literature to reach deep feelings in people.

Crude thoughts and fierce forces are my state. I do not know who I am. Nor what I was. I cannot hear a sound. Pain is near that will be like no pain felt before.

The fact that we've been a great democracy doesn't mean we will automatically keep being one if we keep waving the flag.

The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.

One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. One feels one's being, one becomes aware of the enormous apparatus of nothingness - the hum of a hi-fi set, the emptiness of a pointless interruption, one becomes aware of the war between each of us, how the nothingness in each of us seeks to attack the being of others, how our being in turn is attacked by the nothingness in others.