A book of great beauty and manically exquisite insight with a wild and deadly humor . . . The only American novelist who may conceivably be possessed by genius.

Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.

Boredom slays more of existence than war.

I don't trust a man who uses the word evil eighteen times in ten minutes. If you're half evil, nothing soothes you more than to think the person you are opposed to is totally evil.

There is a no man's land between sex and love, and it alters in the night.

With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.

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.