Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.

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

Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another.

There is probably no heterosexual alive who is not preoccupied with his latent homosexuality.

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.

Indeed the early history of rocket design could be read as the simple desire to get the rocket to function long enough to give an opportunity to discover where the failure occurred. Most early debacles were so benighted that rocket engineers could have been forgiven for daubing the blood of a virgin goat on the orifice of the firing chamber.

Faction is that hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration.