Alimony is the curse of the writing class.

What's the use of being a writer if you can't irritate a great many people?

The fact that we've been a great democracy doesn't mean we will automatically keep being one if we keep waving the flag.

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.

One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.

There`s a tendency for Americans, particularly the simpler you are, the more you believe in the president as the kind of person to be.

...never have I subscribed to the doctrine of willful rejection of the world or its visual image. To the non-objectivist this act of impiety may be shockingly impure, but God, I have no desire to be either hollow or sterile.