I would have been dead if it weren't for that great gift to civilization from the Chemistry Department of Harvard, which was napalm, or sticky jellied gasoline.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

There is a tragic flaw in our precious constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.

He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

Perhaps I am the turtle, able to live simply anywhere, even underwater for short periods, with my home on my back.

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.

We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.

Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own.

If I could sleep with my arms around you, the ink could stay in the bottle.

If I advance follow me! If I retreat cut me down! If I die avenge me!

This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no other

Only the disenfranchised can party with abandon.

She goes in with a prejudice and comes out with a statistic.

It's hard to be shocking now. It's hard to challenge people because the Internet has allowed everyone to become much more worldly, much more visual. It's very hard to surprise people.

I think I'm probably an assassin and not a Templar, but no doubt we're probably run by people with Templar mentalities.

I was working all the time I was in college. I was working so much that I could hardly do my college work.

The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.

If you could stop reflecting, immediately you establish yourself in the ocean of peace.