You don't know anything about a woman until you meet her in court.

To be married to a good woman is to live with tender surprise.

Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost for ever, even to the protagonists.

With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists, the small trumpet of your defiance.

Talking in a soft modest voice, he [Barry Goldwater] radiated at this moment the skinny boyish sincerity of a fellow who wears glasses but is determined nevertheless to have a good time. It was not unreminiscent of Arthur Miller: that same mixture of vast solemnity and unspoiled boyhood, a sort of shucks and aw shit in the voice.

The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again; it has perhaps not been here so intensely in thirty years, not since the Nazis were prospering, but it is coming back.

The Barry Goldwater movement excited the depths because the apocalypse was brought more near, and like millions of other whites, I had been leading a life which was a trifle too pointless and a trifle too full of guilt and my gullet was close to nausea with the empty promises of an empty liberal center.

Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it.

In every death is a celebration; in every ecstasy, one little death.

People who are greedy have extraordinary capacities for waste-they must, they take in too much.