The century would seek to dominate nature as it had never been dominated, would attack the idea of war, poverty and natural catastrophe as never before. The century would create death, devastation and pollution as never before. Yet the century was now attached to the idea that man must take his conception of life out to the stars.

No heart is so hard as the timid heart.

Bright was the light of my last martini on my moral horizon

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

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Left-wingers are incapable of conspiring because they are all egomaniacs.

...the indispensable requirement for a good newspaperman - as eager to tell a lie as the truth.