The novelist ... must live in paranoia and seek to be one with the world; he must be terrified of experience and hungry for it; he must think himself nothing and believe he is superior to all.

If you can change style, why stick to one style? Style is a vanity because it gives you product identification.

There are two kinds of brave men: those who are brave by the grace of nature, and those who are brave by an act of will.

Writers don't have lifestyles. They just sit in little rooms and write.

Reaching consensus in a group is often confused with finding the right answer.

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.

You do not really wish to hear more of the Battle of Kadesh. Let me say only that human fat, gorged in considerable quantity, has an intoxicating effect. I became ... drunk.