The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.

As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction

It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another.

The Great Change is when humankind accepts its role as part of the natural order of the universe instead of its role as a cancer

Words are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers.

If everyone could understand the working of a psychopath's mind, we undoubtedly would be closer to insanity ourselves.

Nobody gets beyond a petroleum economy. Not while there's petroleum there.

Seduction... was both a science and art - a blend of skill, discipline, proximity, and opportunity. Mostly proximity.

Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.

History viewed from the inside is always a dark, digestive mess, far different from the easily recognizable cow viewed from afar by historians.

The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.

the abstract reveals after a second

It is a point of pride for the American male to keep the same size jockey shorts for his entire life.

A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young.

Each new generation is reared by its predecessor; the latter must therefore improve in order to improve its successor. The movement is circular.

Information, if viewed from the point of view of food, is never a production issue. ... It's a consumption issue, and we have to start thinking about how we create diets [and] exercise.

Lonley, Vaguely pedophilic swing set seeks the butts of children.

I don't care who I play to, as long as they enjoy listening to what I play.

I write to empty my mind and to fill my heart.

Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.