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" 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. "

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

" There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce. "

" Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing. "

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

" 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. "

" In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent. "

" We can never know for certain where our prayers are likely to go, nor from whom the answers will come. Just when we think we are at our nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil. "

" I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses. "

" There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same. "

" In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell by cell. "

" God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so. "

" The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety. "

" Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts. "

" The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world. "

" I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension. "

" 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. "

" Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer. "

" Alimony is the curse of the writing class. "

" Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men. "

" When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write. "

" Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another. "

" 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. "

" Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle. "

" 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. "

" Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most. "

" There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be. "

" The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people. "