Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.

There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved in such a way that utopia remains forever closed, and we live in freedom and hell, debased of style, not individual from one another, void of courage, our fear rationalized away.

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.

Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.

You can't be a serious writer of fiction unless you believe the story you are telling.

Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.

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