If you can change style, why stick to one style? Style is a vanity because it gives you product identification.

I hate everything which is not in myself.

Madness is locked beneath. It goes into tissues, is swallowed by the cells. The cells go mad. Cancer is their flag. Cancer is thegrowth of madness denied.

I don't want to retire. I'm not that good at crossword puzzles

Mailer's Law: A thing either gets better or it costs more to run it the way it was.

The writer can grow as a person or he can shrink. ... His curiosity, his reaction to life must not diminish. The fatal thing is to shrink, to be interested in less, sympathetic to less, desiccating to the point where life itself loses its flavor, and one’s passion for human understanding changes to weariness and distaste.

I don't hate women, but I think they should be kept in cages.