Jail was preferable. There they only limited you physically. In a mental ward they tampered with your soul and worldview and mind.

you can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces.

Having once been so high, humanity fell so low. What had once been dedicated to the soul was now dedicated to the sale.

I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.

You could tell by the way he talked, though, that he had gone to school a long time. That was probably what was wrong with him.

Oh, Fortuna, blind, heedless goddess, I am strapped to your wheel,' Ignatius belched, 'Do not crush me beneath your spokes. Raise me on high, divinity.

Apparently I lack some particular perversion which today's employer is seeking.

with the breakdown of the medieval system, the gods of chaos, lunacy, and bad taste gained ascendancy.

Stop!' I cried imploringly to my god-like mind.

This liberal doxy must be impaled upon the member of a particularly large stallion.

I refuse to "look up." Optimism nauseates me. It is perverse. Since man's fall, his proper position in the universe has been one of misery.

You need to quickly recognize when and why you're being spooned bullshit. That happens very often, but it happens for a reason.

The highest art... sets down its creations and trusts in their magic, without fear of not being understood.

America is the most powerful economy in the world. We're an $18-trillion-dollar economy.

Examples ... which might be multiplied ad libitum, show how difficult it often is for an experimenter to interpret his results without the aid of mathematics.

Never feel safe with the woman you love, for a woman's nature conceals more dangers than you think.

Everyone should say what they wanted. It saved time.

I don't care what the critics say or think because I care for and love my fans.

I'm enjoying my life, post-menopause, so much. It's just so great to grow into yourself, and not be bothered with all that tyranny of biology.

I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.

Always retain the ability to walk away, without sentimentality, from a situation that felt unmanageable. That was a basic rule of survival. Don't lift a finger for a lost cause.