Who said “In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are…”?

“I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.”

“I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future.”

“Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.”

“If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for America to draft us, and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country.”

“Violence is my last option.”

“Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.”

“In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.”

“Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.”

“Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.”

“I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.”

“The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.”