"Organization kills."

"One of the most extraordinary things about industrial society of the present day is its idiot lack of memory. Tabloid…"

"The only excuse for a novelist, aside from the entertainment and vicarious living his books give the people who read …"

"The mind of a generation is its speech. A writer makes aspects of that speech enduring by putting them in print. He w…"

"Walt Whitman's a hell of a lot more revolutionary than any Russian poet I've ever heard of."

"The business of a novelist is, in my opinion, to create characters first and foremost, and then to set them in the sn…"

"In the last twenty-five years a change has come over the visual habits of Americans . . . From being a wordminded peo…"

"A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he h…"

"There is a part of me in every character, naturally. That's why novelists rarely write good autobiographies. You star…"

"Humanity has a strange fondness for following processions. Get four men following a banner down the street, and, if t…"