Reaching consensus in a group is often confused with finding the right answer.

I no longer gave a sick dog's drop for the wisdom, the reliability and the authority of the public's literary mind, those creeps and old ladies of vested reviewing.

Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.

When I read it ["Tough Guys Don't Dance"], I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.

So the blind will lead the blind, and the deaf shout warnings to one another until their voices are lost.

I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.

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.