"I do not write about nice people. I am not nice people. Neither is anyone I have ever cared deeply about."

"I suppose that American League pitchers have been feeding me soft ones for 21 years. I know how they all feel, and I don't blame 'em. They'd rather strike out the Babe than anyone else. For I've been …"

"The thing I liked about writing about food when I started it was that I felt I was writing about food in a different way. Not like a food writer."

"And I am concerned about the attitude of a candidate or his sponsors with respect to the rights of American citizens to assemble peaceably and to express publicly their views and opinions on important…"

"The real world with its common logic pushes us toward catastrophe. The artists seek in his work to free himself from this weight. Art is being transformed into politics, love into trade, education int…"