“We want to leave the language in perhaps slightly better shape because of our passage through it, in all our books, rather than in worse shape.”

“It is difficult for the citizens of America, having never seen their country devastated by war to really understand and appreciate the full horrors of war and the absolute necessity for bending all our efforts to preventing another and even more disastrous conflict. Surely the problem that concerns all of us most greatly is the…

“I am a homosexual and a writer, both of whom are professionally self-regarding and self-esteeming creatures.”

“The only interesting ideas are heresies.”

“Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once…and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.”

“In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past but the one who invents it.”