There`s a tendency for Americans, particularly the simpler you are, the more you believe in the president as the kind of person to be.

In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell by cell.

Amateurs... venture into scenes that a writer with more experience (and more professional concern) would bypass or eschew altogether.

I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.

Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to get a few words.

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.

The true religion of America has always been America.