“A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.”

“Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.”

“A good writer can watch a cat pad across the street and know what it is to be pounced upon by a Bengal tiger.”

“Western teaching institutions that refuse to acknowledge today's taboos are by definition subversive. Tell the new zealots of Washington that in the making of Israel a monstrous human crime was committed and they will call you an anti-Semite. Tell them there was no Garden of Creation and they will call you a dangerous cynic. Tell them God is what man invented to compensate for his ignorance of science and they will call you a Communist.”

“There are moments which are made up of too much stuff for them to be lived at the time they occur.”

“By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed.”

“If you see the world as gloomily as I see it, the only thing to do is laugh or shoot yourself.”