We just start putting our ideas out there, yet how do we actually attack contemporary problems? We do what some of the most successful American businesses do. We outsource and collaborate

I advise you to be suspicious of any black American whose family does not claim a blood connection to Native Americans. That’s a clear sign of a racial infiltrator who has not done enough research.

You can’t write novels without a touch of paranoia. I’m paranoid as an act of good citizenship, concerned about what the powerful people are up to.

Minds that have withered into psychosis are far more terrifying than any character of fiction.

No matter how offensive she's been to me, she continues to act as if she has some sort of God-given right to keep coming back for more favors.

I used to jog but it's bad for the knees. Too much beta carotene turns you orange, too much calcium gives you kidney stones. Health kills.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin

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

I don't want to go about offending people, that's not my plan.

A free horse where there is no man on its saddle always looks more beautiful than a slave horse with a man on its saddle!

The classic trap for any revolutionary is always, 'What's your alternative?