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

The true religion of America has always been America.

The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.

There's that popular misconception of man as something between a brute and an angel. Actually man is in transit between brute and God.

The art of the novel is to arrive at that artless point where your characters become more real than yourself.

There are days when I'll wake up and think, oh, I've really been something. You know, it won't be the same without me. And then there are days when I wake up and I say, 'Don't kid yourself. Your contribution was minimal. You changed very little. Everything you hated prospered'.

Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego.