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.

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

A nation fights well in proportion to the amount of men and materials it has. And the other equation is that the individual soldier in that army is a more effective soldier the poorer his standard of living has been in the past.

Any workout which does not involve a certain minimum of danger or responsibility does not improve the body - it just wears it out.

The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world.

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.