The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution's in the soul.

Once a newspaper touches a story the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

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.

There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements.

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 difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.

Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.

A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.