You do not really wish to hear more of the Battle of Kadesh. Let me say only that human fat, gorged in considerable quantity, has an intoxicating effect. I became ... drunk.

In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.

People who are greedy have extraordinary capacities for waste-they must, they take in too much.

Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.

Existentialism is the kind of philosophy that makes for legendary children.

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

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