I didn't have to think up so much as a comma or a semicolon; it was all given, straight from the celestial recording room. Weary, ...I would beg for a break, an intermission, time enough, let's say, to go to the toilet or take a breath of fresh air on the balcony. Nothing doing!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Broadway, such as I see it now and have seen it for twenty- five years, is a ramp that was conceived by St. Thomas Aquinas while h...e was yet in the womb. It was meant originally to be used only by snakes and lizards, by the horned toad and the red heron, but when the great Spanish Armada was sunk the human kind wriggled out of the ketch and slopped over, creating by a sort of foul, ignominious squirm and wiggle the cunt-like cleft that runs from the Battery south to the golf links north through the dead and wormy center of Manhattan Island.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The stabbing horror of life is not contained in calamities and disasters, because these things wake one up and one gets very famil...iar and intimate with them and finally they become tame again.... No, it is more like being in a hotel room in Hoboken let us say, and just enough money in one's pocket for another meal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I think of some of the Persians, the Hindus, the Arabs I knew, when I think of the character they revealed, their grace, thei...r tenderness, their intelligence, their holiness, I spit on the white conquerors of the world, the degenerate British, the pigheaded Germans, the smug self-satisfied French.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I will never again go to people under false pretenses even if it is to give them the Holy Bible. I will never again sell anything,... even if I have to starve. I am going home now and I will sit down and really write about people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, th...is is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty ... what you will. I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »