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.

The art of the novel is to arrive at that artless point where your characters become more real than yourself.

Movies are more likely than literature to reach deep feelings in people.

Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.

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

Murder offers the promise of vast relief. It is never unsexual.

The ultimate tendency of liberalism is vegetarianism.