Goldstein, you'd be a pretty good boy if you wasn't so chicken.

I take it for granted that there's a side of me that loves public action, and there's another side of me that really wants to be alone and work and write. And I've learned to alternate the two as matters develop.

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

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.

There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be.

So the blind will lead the blind, and the deaf shout warnings to one another until their voices are lost.

Writers don't have lifestyles. They just sit in little rooms and write.