You can't be a serious writer of fiction unless you believe the story you are telling.

Somewhere, something incredible happened in history - the wrong guys won.

The mark of mediocrity is to look for precedent.

Simple narcissism gives the power of beasts to politicians, professional wrestlers and female movie stars.

You do not really wish to hear more of the Battle of Kadesh. Let me say only that human fat, gorged in considerable quantity, has an intoxicating effect. I became ... drunk.

We divorced ourselves from the materials of the earth, the rock, the wood, the iron ore; we looked to new materials which were cooked in vats, long complex derivatives of urine which we called plastic. They had no odor of the living, ... their touch was alien to nature. ... [They proliferated] like the matastases of cancer cells.

The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again.