What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions. |
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president. |
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies. |
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke? |
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either. |
In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it. |
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age. |
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die. |
Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults. |
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all. |
Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself. |
Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little. |
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. |
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. |
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over. |
Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60. |