For invented gods invariably disappoint those who worship them.

The so-called Beat Generation was a whole bunch of people, of all different nationalities, who came to the conclusion that society sucked.

Jazz music hashaunted America for seventy years.It has tempted us out of our lily-white reserve with its black promise of untrammeled joy.

Some books accrete things to themselves like a magnet. The writer risks sterility by subjecting the mysterious power of imagination to the devices of mere comprehension.

The idiotic industry of an ant building his hill in the path of a glacier, and imagining that he is free.

Nothing like the road to rub all the sand out of your soul.

But all I could think of was taking some books to read in jail. I held everybody up, choosing which ones to take.

Certain kinds of clichés are the narcotics of the middle class.

And I just walked away. Again and again, I walked away as her world fell down around her. As they destroyed her. We destroyed her.

Why do the Gods make kings and queens if not to protect the ones who can't protect themselves?

I have become an obstinate heretic in the eyes of my colleagues. Momentary success carries more power of conviction than reflections upon principles.

There are many difficult things in this world to hide, but a secret is not one of them.

(Oklahoma Thunder center Kendrick) Perkins doesn't like other NBA players.

Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight the inner ear.

The individual who violates the rules in a zealous search for an answer to the problem may overstep the bounds and thereby suffer the loss of his relationships to the organized medical profession.

Perhaps the old literacy of words is dying and a new literacy of images is being born. Perhaps the printed page will disappear and even our records be kept in images and sounds.

Great saints have often been made out of great sinners, but not one was ever made out of a wimp.

When the President decides to go to war, he no longer needs a declaration of war from congress.