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

The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.

The way you write affects what you say.

America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.

The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.

You're gambling with something vital. Most writers get smashed egos.

The nightmare in every democracy, the very nightmare, is if it gets worse and worse and worse, we could end up totalitarian.