We must learn to accept life and to accept ourselves ... with a shrug and a smile ... because it's all we've got.

Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.

We may not be able to stop satan from doing his business, but we can scheme to make his business to yield a loss! All things... I mean "all", "all things", "everything" is working for our good!

I love an opposition that has convictions.

I'm an attention freak. I want all the women in the world, and if I don't get them, I fall to the ground and start kicking my feet.

Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.

Have a short story feature two situations, and then let them solve each other.

[Norman Mailer] is against masturbation, he's against homosexuality. He believes that murder is essentially sexual. I think he's rather an anthology of all the darkest American traits.

He does not have my class.

Since I came to the White House, I got two hearing aids, a colon operation, skin cancer, a prostate operation, and I was shot. The damn thing is, I've never felt better in my life.

I never consciously tried to conceive of what my sound should be.