He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.

I came to New York and in only hours, New York did what it does to people: awakened the possibilities. Hope breaks out.

How easy life is when it's easy, and how hard when it's hard.

You can't write good satirical fiction in America because reality will quickly outdo anything you might invent.

Don't judge it. Just write it. Don't judge it. It's not for you to judge it.

This is what you know about someone you have to hate: he charges you with his crime and castigates himself in you.

Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war.