Sex is not only a divine and beautiful activity; it's a murderous activity. People kill each other in bed. Some of the greatest crimes ever committed were committed in bed. And no weapons were used.

The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.

Everything wrong with America led to the point where the country built that tower of Babel, which consequently had to be destroyed. And then came the next shock. We had to realize that the people that did this were brilliant. It showed that the ego we could hold up until September 10 was inadequate.

The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again.

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

We have an absolute right in a democracy to argue about a war.

In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell by cell.