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

Television is coitus interruptus brought into aesthetics.

We're all divided souls, we've got two natures in us, You measure schizophrenia not by the fact that you're divided but how well the divisions speak to one another.

Left-wingers are incapable of conspiring because they are all egomaniacs.

Conservatives are people who look at a tree and feel instinctively that it is more beautiful than anything they can name. But when it comes to defending that tree against a highway, they will go for the highway.

There is probably no heterosexual alive who is not preoccupied with his latent homosexuality.

The novelist ... must live in paranoia and seek to be one with the world; he must be terrified of experience and hungry for it; he must think himself nothing and believe he is superior to all.