There is something silly about a man who wears a white suit all the time$$$ especially in New York. (on Tom Wolfe)

Just as a fighter has to feel that he possesses the right to do physical damage to another man$$$ so a writer has to be ready to take chances with his readers' lives.

Poems should be like pins which prick the skin of boredom and leave a glow equal in its pride to the gate of the sadist who stuck the pin and walked away.

If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist$$$ not smart enough to be a lawyer$$$ and his hands are too shaky to perform operations$$$ he becomes a journalist.

The vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances$$$ and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar.

He who seeks to deceive will always find someone who will allow himself to be deceived.

Men intrinsically do not trust new things that they have not experienced themselves.

For however strong you may be in respect of your army$$$ it is essential that in entering a new Province you should have the good will of its inhabitants.

Against my will$$$ my fate$$$<br/>A throne unsettled$$$ and an infant state$$$<br/>Bid me defend my realms with all my pow'rs$$$<br/>And guard with these severities my shores.

Many pass for saints on earth whose souls are in hell.