I still believe in this country, that it can fulfill the destiny Blake and Whitman envisioned. I still believe in American poetry.
The worse the author, the more he is known.
In a competitive society, the thing people fear the most is love.
New York establishment isn't really a literary establishment. It's just a collection of broken down old newspaper hacks who pass judgment on books that they have not even read, with assuredness of Jehova.
I think America, really, is over.
Television masturbates its audience even though the audience is not really watching. It masturbates orifices the audience doesn't have. It sticks holes in the viewer and masturbates in those holes. Then it finally gets into the brain and masturbates there, too.
I think fame is something that you've achieved in your inner self that becomes known to others outside you. There are really very few famous people in history.
It's a really weird thing, modern divorce. I found out I was getting divorced on television. That was kind of weird.
I shall endeavor to marshal British opinion against a course of action which would bring in my opinion the greatest evils upon the people of India, upon the people of Great Britain and upon the British Empire itself.
Dig a trench through a landfill and you will see layers of phone books like geographical strata or layers of cake. . . . During a recent landfill dig in Phoenix, I found newspapers dating from 1952 that looked so fresh you might read one over breakfast.
Every ball went exactly where I wanted it to go until the ball that got me out