As a writer, there are times when you have something to say, and yet no particular 'hook' upon which to hang the missive you are burning to release.
My last fear, the fear of God, died with my faith.
A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.
Why is it there are so many more horses' asses than there are horses?
If the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms insists upon a firefight, give them a firefight. Just remember, they're wearing flak jackets and you're better off shooting for the head.
Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
Three people can keep a secret as long as two of them are dead.
(. . . the non-conformist, how do you keep from getting scarred?)i don’t! i got a scar here…and uh i got a scar on my knee…and uh a few scars on my soul.
I'd studied English literature and American history, but the English literature, which I thought was going to be helpful to me in an immediate way, was the opposite. So I had to un-think a lot of things and move out of my own head, and I learned a lot. It was like graduate school, but an un-graduate school or an un-school.
But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way to tell him the plain truths contained in these pages.
I am a determinist. As such, I do not believe in free will. The Jews believe in free will. They believe that man shapes his own life. I reject that doctrine philosophically. In that respect I am not a Jew.