Old age is wasted on the elderly: the young know what to do with it-insist on something different.

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.

The steady pressure to consume, absorb, participate, receive, by eye, ear, mouth, and mail involves a cruelty to intestines, blood pressure, and psyche unparalleled in history.

Catastrophe and desire are linked in our lives as the moon is linked to that reflected light from the sun which enables the eye to see it.

Conformity is inevitable when folks huddle together in rebellion.

Being a writer is a rather hazardous occupation and there is a horribly high rate of writers who barely have the money for the paper and pen they use for their craft.

The would-bees take their honey from the flowers of creation.

The fact that all of us die anyway (the rumor turns out to be true) is a mere detail in the celestial glow of imagination. The artist's eyes destroy death.

Isolation from power makes men look for a mob in which they can be strong.

The magic will which makes us see the other side of our natures-dream and disaster, catastrophe and fulfillment-is the great permanent challenge of humanity.

If mankind is naturally good, he is sure going against his nature more and more of the time. It sounds like a bad joke: the paranoids are after us.

Life is a series of events and sensations. Everything else is interpretation. Much is lost in transition - and added in assumption / projection

The ability to ask questions is a virtue and a trait of a free thinker.

The long arm of coincidence.

Good morning! Remember: A person can succeed at almost anything for which they have unlimited enthusiasm.

Our arms must be mighty ... ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction

If you've got a cat and a leg, you've got a happy cat. If you've got a cat and two legs, you've got a party.

I am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government.

I think a great song appeals to older and younger people and it makes you think. It's also honest, and it also doesn't hurt if it's fun to sing along to.

What I felt at that time - we're talking about '61 - was that I couldn't remember seeing a film that reflected the age we were living in.

If you are afraid of making mistakes, you won't learn anything and you won't make much money.