If the book’s bad enough, they’ll publish it, and if it’s bad bad enough, the daily reviewers will love it, and it’ll sell.

All you need do, Bernie, ”she gulped her toast soaked in coffee, “is present the truth as fiction.

But failure has kept Curt at home like a nice warm dachshund.

And yet Curt’s a real writer too. His machinery is stuck, that’s all.

He’s America in action — opposed to quality.

She was a church open only for him, with services in full operation twenty-four hours a day.

I was going down and hard. There are a few things in life that suck really badly. Loving someone who doesn't love you back is one of them.

Where the electron behaves and misbehaves as it will, where the forces tie themselves up into knots of atoms and come united.

I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.

We are all today being monitored in advance and in criminal suspicion. And I think that's terrifying, and deeply illiberal as concept. And that's something that we should reject.

Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.

The winner in a political contest is determined by the number and the effectiveness of the activists on the respective sides.

Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.

To me there's a definite way of doing a song. If I didn't think that, I wouldn't have done it that way in the first place.

...language is not the frosting, it's the cake.

Few moments in life are more gratifying than those when the arrogant are exposed as the ignorant.