So many people in the Western World are just automatically made ill by any sort of frank writing about sexual matters.

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.

You can get anywhere in Pakistan if you know people, even into jail.

Even the wisest and the best of us can be foolish occasionally.

Happiness depends as Nature shows Less on exterior things than most suppose.

We just make music. For I never stop working.

I'm a problem-solver, and you're welcome.

I've worked for four presidents and watched two others up close, and I know that there's no such thing as a routine day in the Oval Office.

how peaceful a bedroom is without a man in it.

We overstate the ills of life, and take Imagination... down our earth to rake.

Anything good that I have written has, at some point during its composition, left me feeling uneasy and afraid. It has seemed, for a moment at least, to put me at risk.

When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'erflow? If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad, Threatening the welkin with his big-swollen face?