There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers- most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.

The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, 'The trouble with this country is...'

There are two insults no human will endure. The assertion that he has no sense of humor and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.

The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.