nevver:

  1. “Andy Warhol is the only genius I’ve ever known with an IQ of 60.”
  2. “The worst thing to happen to Lincoln - aside from the unfortunate incident at Ford’s theatre - was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg.”
  3. “Ayn Rand’s ‘philosophy’ is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience all the more ominous and symptomatic as we enter a curious new phase in our society…. To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.”
  4. “[Truman] Capote I truly loathed. The way you might loathe an animal. A filthy animal that has found its way into the house.”
  5. “As Norman Mailer would say, “It’s existential.” He went to his grave without knowing what that word meant.”