“After dinner or lunch or whatever it was -- with my crazy 12-hour night I was no longer sure what was what -- I said, "Look, baby, I'm sorry, but don't you realize that this job is driving me crazy...”

“Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?”

“I went over to see Marina two or three or four times a week. I knew as long as I could see the girl I would be all right. Soon after, I got a letter from Fay. She and the child were living in a hip...”

“some moments are nice, some arenicer, some are even worthwritingabout.”

“We dont even ask happiness, just a little less pain.”

“that's ONE thing that's wrong with intellectuals and writers - they don't feel a hell of a lot except their own comfort or their own pain. which is normal but shitty.”

“Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.”

“Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.”

“Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.”

“He preferred the term "study" to "office," as an office meant work. No way around it. In a study, you could, well, study, or nap or read, or stare into space thinking long thoughts. You could certa...”

“As I write this entry, I touch a saber-tooth tiger skull in my office. Without stars there could be no skulls”

“Every single aspect of what we do at work comes down to people and managing people, selling to people, working with people or making them do what you want them to do.”