What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.

Faction is that hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration.

The paradox is that no love can prove so intense as the love of two narcissists for each other.

I don't trust a man who uses the word evil eighteen times in ten minutes. If you're half evil, nothing soothes you more than to think the person you are opposed to is totally evil.

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

The Frenchman Jean-PaulSartre ... had a dialectical mind good as a machine for cybernetics, immense in its way, he could peel a nuance like an onion, but he had no sense of evil, the anguish of God, and the possible existence of Satan.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.