“But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case it is unfit to exist.”

“But I am I. And I won't subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind”

“It always makes me proud to love the world somehow- hate's so easy compared.”

“You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.”

“If the worker and his boss enjoy the same television program and visit the same resort places, if the typist is as attractively made up as the daughter of her employer, if the Negro owns a Cadillac, if they all read the same newspaper, then this assimilation indicates not the disappearance of classes, but the extent to which the needs and satisfactions that serve the preservation of the Establishment are shared by the underlying population.”

“Scars speak for you. They say you're strong, and you've survived something that might have killed others.”

“Literature is news that stays news.”

“Recklessness is almost a man's revenge on his woman. He feels he is not valued so he will risk destroying himself to deprive her altogether.”