Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.
It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.
Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.
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.
Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.
Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.
The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.
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.
The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.
Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it.
There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements.
There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.
There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be.
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.