"My piece in One World or None was the description of the effect of a single atomic bomb on New York City"

"Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts"

"Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait"

"It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story"

"You can't bomb a people just in case"

"From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline"

"The savages don't have atom bombs"

"After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war"

"On the eighteenth of December 1972, when we thought we were getting another of the hundreds of little tactical air raids, we heard the bombs going in out there in the railroad yards and this went on for about thirty minutes"

"I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn't get one job, went on a thousands of auditions and literally did not get a job on a soap, not a movie, not TV, not nothing, although I did do some commercials thank God"

"I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life... nuclear bombs, inequality of possibility and chance, inequality of goods allotted to us, a kind of general racist, unjust attitude that is pervasive"