If I could teach my children only one thing, it would be the skill of marketing. For with that skill, they could be successful at anything they chose for the rest of their lives.

It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.

It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark, but $120 for an earthquake emergency kit just seems unreasonable.

To err is human, but to be paid for it is divine

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

You're playing hookey for her? You met her, what, five minutes ago? And now she's what? Your girlfriend? Did you give her your varsity jacket?

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

If you cultivate a relationship in a genuine, thoughtful way, people will be more inclined to want to help you even though they don't have to help you.

A big girl once came up to me after a show and said "I think you're fatist." I said "No, no. I think you're fattest."

The United States, democratic and various though it is, is not an easy country for a fiction-writer to enter: the slot between the fantastic and the drab seems too narrow.

It will no longer be war that is the continuation of politics by other means, it will be what I have dubbed 'the integral accident' that is the continuation of politics by other means.

It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is a war without end.

When you get to be my age there are more and more people you have known that you miss. Brion [Gysin], Antony Balch, Ian Summerville are ones I think of right away I was quite close to.

I'd always find the positive in someone.