Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.
Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.
When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.
When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part.
To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.
All these boundaries - Africa, Asia, Malaysia, America - are set by men. But you don't have to look at boundaries when you are looking at a man - at the character of a man. The question is: What do you stand for? Are you a follower, or are you a leader?
Sun-bleached bones were most wonderful against the blue - that blue that will always be there as it is now after all man's destruction is finished.
No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.
It strikes me as bad manners for a magazine to accept one of my advertisements and then attack it editorially - like inviting a man to dinner then spitting in his eye.
The transformation scene, where man is becoming insect and insect has become at least man and beyond that - a flying, godlike, shimmering, diaphanous, beautiful creature.
Sex - the poor man's polo.
No man is as anti-feminist as a really feminine woman.
Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.
You can pour holy oil and holy water on a thug until you have emptied buckets of both; but at the end he will be a consecrated thug, but a thug all the same unless interior intentions and a disciplined man are present.
The final story, the final chapter of western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles.