I do believe that America's deepest political sickness is that it is a self-righteous nation.

Alimony is the curse of the writing class.

I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.

The fact that we've been a great democracy doesn't mean we will automatically keep being one if we keep waving the flag.

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

Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.

A political convention is after all not a meeting of a corporation's board of directors; it is a fiesta, a carnival, a pig-rooting, horse-snorting, band-playing, voice-screaming medieval get-together of greed, practical lust, compromised idealism, career-advancement, meeting, feud, vendetta, conciliation, of rabble-rousers, fist fights (as it used to be), embraces, drunks (again as it used to be) and collective rivers of animal sweat.