 Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer. |
| I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses. |
| Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men. |
| The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation. |
| The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety. |
| Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation. |
| It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions. |
| God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so. |
| Alimony is the curse of the writing class. |
| Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists. |
| The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you. |
| Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment. |
| Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen. |
| Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most. |
| There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce. |
| In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell by cell. |
| Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor. |
| What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil. |
| The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level. |
| I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for. |
