The fact that we've been a great democracy doesn't mean we will automatically keep being one if we keep waving the flag.

The greater the power of any subjective state, the more total is a Romantic's assumption that everyone understands exactly what he is about to do, therefore waste not a moment by stopping to tell them.

If you can change style, why stick to one style? Style is a vanity because it gives you product identification.

I do believe that America's deepest political sickness is that it is a self-righteous nation.

I don't hate women, but I think they should be kept in cages.

I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.

The Barry Goldwater movement excited the depths because the apocalypse was brought more near, and like millions of other whites, I had been leading a life which was a trifle too pointless and a trifle too full of guilt and my gullet was close to nausea with the empty promises of an empty liberal center.