I wonder, said the Lord I wonder if I know the answer any more.

There are many churches in my name and in the name of my apostles. The greatest and holiest is named after Peter; it is a place of great splendor in Rome. Nowhere can be found more gold.

Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it.

Faction is that hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration.

That was how the tears went down Cherry's face...a teaspoon full of ten years' sorrow.

The jeep would round the bend, be hit by a dozen bullets at once, and that would be the end of his petty history of unfocused groping and unimportant dissatisfactions.

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

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

Love was love, one could find it with anyone, one could find it anywhere. It was just that you could never keep it. Not unless you were ready to die for it.

When the time comes, they won't ask what kind of a Jew you are.

I am not here only so that the blind might see, but to teach those who thought they could see that they are blind

The more things you own, the more things you need to keep you comfortable.

Yeah, fighting a war to fix something works about as good as going to a whorehouse to get rid of a clap.

No heart is so hard as the timid heart.

Existentialism is the kind of philosophy that makes for legendary children.

You never do find out what makes you tick, and after a while it's unimportant.

Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.

Great hope has no real footing unless one is willing to face into the doom that may also be on the way. p.207

Great sex is apocalyptic. There is no such thing as great sex unless you have an apocalyptic moment.

The paradox is that no love can prove so intense as the love of two narcissists for each other.

Bright was the light of my last martini on my moral horizon

I guess all that's left is to love the fire.

Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.

The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution in the soul.