The Final Purpose Of Art Is To

To Be Married To A Good Woman Is To Live With Tender Surprise.

Television Is Coitus Interruptus Brought Into Aesthetics.

Left-wingers Are Incapable Of Conspiring Because They Are All Egomaniacs.

I've Always Felt That My Relationship To The United States Is Analogous To A Marriage. I Love This Country. I Hate It. I Get Angry At It. I Feel Close To It. I'm Charmed By It. I'm Repelled By It. And It's A Marriage That's Gone On For Let's Say At Least 50 Years Of My Writing Life, And In The Course Of That, What's Happened? It's Gotten Worse. It's Not What It Used To Be.

Once A Newspaper Touches A Story, The Facts Are Lost Forever, Even To The Protagonists.