The sole virtue of losing your short-term memory is that it does free you to be your own editor.

Patterned after an Italian Renaissance palace, it is 88 times as large and one millionth as valuable to the continuation of man. that Pentagon of traveling salesmen.

The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution in the soul.

We sail across dominions barely seen, washed by the swells of time. We plow through fields of magnetism. Past and future come together on thunderheads and our dead hearts live with lightning in the wounds of the Gods.

Insanity consists of building major structures upon foundations which do not exist.

When a novel comes, it's a grace. Something in the cosmos has forgiven you long enough so that you can start.

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.