Reagan bankrupted the Soviet Union by increasing armaments.

Boredom slays more of existence than war.

People who are greedy have extraordinary capacities for waste-they must, they take in too much.

Writing for a newspaper is like running a revolutionary war. You go to battle not when you are ready, but when action offers itself.

Psychoanalysis and Zen, in my private psychic geometry, are equal to nicotine. They are anti-existential. Nicotine quarantines one out of existence.

The sole virtue of losing your short-term memory is that it does free you to be your own editor.

Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego.