The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.

In such places as Greenwich Village, a menage-a-trois was completed- the bohemian and the juvenile delinquent came face-to-face with the Negro, and the hipster was a fact in American life.

You never do find out what makes you tick, and after a while it's unimportant.

It all comes down to who does the dishes.

Women think of being a man as a gift. It is a duty. Even making love can be a duty. A man has always got to get it up, and love isn't always enough.

Everything wrong with America led to the point where the country built that tower of Babel, which consequently had to be destroyed. And then came the next shock. We had to realize that the people that did this were brilliant. It showed that the ego we could hold up until September 10 was inadequate.

Faction is that hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration.