We live in an age in which the imagination of the novelist is helpless against what he knows he is going to read in tomorrow's newspaper.

I'm an Obama supporter. And if you're an Obama supporter that means you had a hard time during the Bush years.

A writer has to be driven crazy to help him to see. A writer needs his poisons.

American society [...] not only sanctions gross and unfair relations among men, but it encourages them. Now, can that be denied? No. Rivalry, competition, envy, jealousy, all that is malignant in human character is nourished by the system. Possession, money, property--on such corrupt standards as these do you people measure happiness and success.

People are unjust to anger - it can be enlivening and a lot of fun.

A Jewish man with his parents alive is half the time a helpless infant!

Dreams? If only they had been! But I don't need dreams, Doctor, that's why I hardly have them—because I have this life instead. With me it all happens in broad daylight!