The way you write affects what you say.

While I'm working on a book, I rarely read anything more than The New York Times. Which may have the long-term effect of flattening my style.

Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another.

I usually need a can of beer to prime me.

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 subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements.

You can indulge your righteous rage but the things it comes out of are pretty cheap. The trick is to make yourself an instrument of your own policy. Whether you like it or not, that's the highest effectiveness man has achieved.