I usually need a can of beer to prime me.

People who live under fascism are not only miserable but they're full of shame. You just don't go in and inject democracy into them. They're half crazy with their own.

Great hope has no real footing unless one is willing to face into the doom that may also be on the way. p.207

The greater the power of any subjective state, the more total is a Romantic's assumption that everyone understands exactly what he is about to do, therefore waste not a moment by stopping to tell them.

Existentialism is the kind of philosophy that makes for legendary children.

No heart is so hard as the timid heart.

Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.