When politics promote hate, it becomes a rule, and populist provocation becomes standard. It has been the same throughout the entire history of humanity.

When you are conjoined at the head with another person, it is so frustrating and so painful that you hate the person who keeps you all the time attached to him/her, but he/she also hates you.

When I write, I usually follow my most inner voice, sometimes called stream of consciousness.

I cannot and don't really want to control my mind, soul, or heart when I write and must recognize that I don't think about the readers at that moment of writing.

Even today I cannot believe that people who lived together could inflict horrible pain on each other.

Always and Everywhere a Book Is Waiting for Me

Don’t just remain that accidental product.

I leveled the gun and fired until it was empty.

Our lives are bound by physical limits, familial ties, political conditions, and geographical restrictions. Individual freedom takes us beyond them all.

Eight, sir; seven, sir; Six, sir; five, sir; Four, sir; Three, sir; Two, sir; one! Tenser, said the Tensor. Tenser, said the Tensor. Tension, apprehension, And dissension have begun.

I believe the approach of the artist and the approach of the environmentalist are fairly close in that both are, to a rather impressive degree, concerned with the affirmation of life.

It's a frightening world to be alone in.

Educational progress is a national concern; education is a private one.

In the end, the only thing the true New Yorker knows about New York is that it is unknowable.

Those who will not take the trouble to think for themselves, have always somebody that thinks for them; and the difficulty in writing is to please those from whom others learn to be pleased.

I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad.