Yet the great “Why?” always at the center of the little “whats” and “hows” that makes religions into mythologies is often stronger in dead temples than in living.

Whenever there's something wrong with your writing, suspect that there's something wrong with your thinking.

I have a theory that you get the right dog, the dog you need, for a particular stage in your life.

It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.

The fact that people are shocked is the best proof that they need shocking.

A period of lewdness and shamelessness exists with the highest type of manic delirium.

Communication with the dead is only a little more difficult than communication with some of the living.

There is no revenge like oblivion, for it is the entombment of the unworthy in the dust of their own nothingness.

Glad to eat ya', I mean meet ya'" - Digger

Let us pray for peace: peace in the world and in each of our hearts.

The earth, that is sufficient, I do not want the constellations any nearer, I know they are very well where they are, I know they suffice for those who belong to them.