It all comes down to who does the dishes.

I always start a book for money. If you're married five times you have to.

I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.

To be married to a good woman is to live with tender surprise.

The White Protestant's ultimate sympathy must be with science, factology, and committee rather than with sex, birth, heat, flesh, creation, the sweet and the funky; they must vote, manipulate, control, and direct, these Protestants who are the center of power in our land, they must go for what they believe is reason when it is only the Square logic of the past.

Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it.

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.