Faction is that hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration.

Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.

Simple narcissism gives the power of beasts to politicians, professional wrestlers and female movie stars.

Any workout which does not involve a certain minimum of danger or responsibility does not improve the body - it just wears it out.

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 writer can grow as a person or he can shrink. ... His curiosity, his reaction to life must not diminish. The fatal thing is to shrink, to be interested in less, sympathetic to less, desiccating to the point where life itself loses its flavor, and one’s passion for human understanding changes to weariness and distaste.

I am not here only so that the blind might see, but to teach those who thought they could see that they are blind