Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother.

The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee.

It's absolutely philistine not to recognize what a great book 'An American Dream' is. Norman Mailer is his own worst enemy, and if you don't catch him in a defensive position, he'll admit it. I'd really like to help that man.