It is indeed difficult to make a living as a writer, and my advice to anyone contemplating a literary career is to have some other trade.

We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it.

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.

I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.

The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.

When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.

Language is an impure medium. Speech is public property and words are the soiled products, not of nature, but of society, which circulates and uses them for a thousand different ends.

There are only those certain people where things click - at least for me.

Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.

Don't think of sea as color. Make it a solid that can support a boat. Think of 'wetness' as color-texture.

I could still be forgotten when I'm dead. I don't really care what happens when I'm dead.

How could he find perfection in such an average day? Then I realized this was the whole point.

Can't you recognize the human in the inhuman?

[In] radio, every segment of every hour is a challenge to fill in an interesting way. What I like the most about it is how challenging it is to do it well.