Unfortunately what is little recognized is that the most worthwhile scientific books are those in which the author clearly indicates what he does not know

And love is work. But it's the best kind of work there is.

When the weather's rough and it's whiskey in the rain it's best to wrap your savior up in cellophane.

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.

O hard, when love and duty clash!

Except if it has some historical meaning for them to have Tibet under their control. I don't understand why [ Chinese] want it so much.

You're looking at that chick like you want to roll her up in a taco and put your hot sauce all over her.

The American Dream never really existed. It was a marketing scam.

The sage never strives for the great, and thereby the great is achieved.

How well I remember my first encounter with The Devil'ss Brew. I happened to stumble across a case of bourbon - and went right on stumbling for several days thereafter.

Art is the Western myth, with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves.