Existentialism is the kind of philosophy that makes for legendary children.

Murder offers the promise of vast relief. It is never unsexual.

Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.

A democracy depends upon people getting brighter all the time. Democracies are delicate. They're not just ipso facto and just go on and on.

A book of great beauty and manically exquisite insight with a wild and deadly humor . . . The only American novelist who may conceivably be possessed by genius.

The great power in America is the corporations - we`re a corporate country. We`re run by a CEO and the stockholders have very little to say on how the corporation is run. Fine, the board of directors run it and the stockholders can just be disgruntled, but who gives a damn?

Great hope has no real footing unless one is willing to face into the doom that may also be on the way. p.207