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.
We can never know for certain where our prayers are likely to go, nor from whom the answers will come. Just when we think we are at our nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil.
Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.
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.
It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway.
The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world.
Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.
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.
I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.
I hate everything which is not in myself.
I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.
I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.
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.
In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.