Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Culture is worth a little risk.
God is a creator, not a law giver.
A high church for the true mediocre.
You have the right to speak your mind.
Cancer is the growth of madness denied.
The way you write affects what you say.
No heart is so hard as the timid heart.
It all comes down to who does the dishes.
I hate everything which is not in myself.
I usually need a can of beer to prime me.
Boredom slays more of existence than war.
Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic.
Alimony is the curse of the writing class.
I guess all that's left is to love the fire.
Harsh words live in the dungeon of the heart
Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego.
The mark of mediocrity is to look for precedent.
Every one of my books had killed me a little more.
Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it.
The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.
The ultimate tendency of liberalism is vegetarianism.
You don't know a woman until you've met her in court.
The true religion of America has always been America.
There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be.
Television is coitus interruptus brought into aesthetics.
Reagan bankrupted the Soviet Union by increasing armaments.
Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
Bright was the light of my last martini on my moral horizon
I don't hate women, but I think they should be kept in cages.
I don't want to retire. I'm not that good at crossword puzzles
We have an absolute right in a democracy to argue about a war.
As many people die from an excess of timidity as from bravery.
To be married to a good woman is to live with tender surprise.
The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again.
Murder offers the promise of vast relief. It is never unsexual.
In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.
Goldstein, you'd be a pretty good boy if you wasn't so chicken.
When the time comes, they won't ask what kind of a Jew you are.
Being a real writer means being able to do the work on a bad day.
Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.
What is there about polarity that is matter becoming more complex?
The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.
The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution in the soul.
Over-certified adjectives are the mark of most best-seller writing
Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.
You're gambling with something vital. Most writers get smashed egos.
In every death is a celebration; in every ecstasy, one little death.
It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.
I've made an ass of myself so many times I often wonder if I am one.
Faction is that hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration.