One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.

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

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

There is probably no heterosexual alive who is not preoccupied with his latent homosexuality.

The only faithfulness people have is to emotions they're trying to recapture

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.

To know what you want to say is not the best condition for writing a novel. Novels go happiest when you discover something you did not know you knew: an insight into one of your opaque characters, a metaphor that startles you... a truth... that used to elude you.