Supposedly there's an actual, researched link between extreme creativity and mental illness, and I believe it because I've seen it with my own eyes.

If you don't participate, you're just taking up oxygen. (Bunny)Life is a banquet. Approach it with hunger. (Chuck)

In a world of insanity, nothing is sacred. It's an insane world, nothing is sacred.

Not in all ways (of course), but the animals you know have power: they have abilities humans lack, could be dangerous, could bring life, mean things that mean things.

Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.

There is merit without rank, but there is no rank without some merit.

If you do not choose the kingdom of God, it does not matter what you choose instead.

Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well.

That happy state of mind, so rarely possessed, in which we can say, "I have enough," is the highest attainment of philosophy.

Where were you born?" "On a battlefield," [Yossarian] answered. "No, no. In what state were you born?" "In a state of innocence.

I want to be a jerk like the rest of my friends, and have fun, and not care about the consequences, but I just can't now.

The thematic links came a little later, after I noticed I was gravitating towards certain elements - war, city, weather. So it wasn't all planned out from the start, it came out of the process.

The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.