What a fool I would have been to let self-respect interfere with my happiness!.

The computer revolution has allowed white-collar criminals to do what the Mob would have loved to do - put a pawnshop and a loan shark in every home!.

Our president is a Christian? So was Adolf Hitler. What can be said to our young people, now that psychopathic personalities, which is to say persons….

I've got at least one tiny corner of the universe I can make just the way I want it..

Just in the nick of time they realized that it was their own habitat they were wrecking -- that they weren't merely visitors..

The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow..

What has been America's most nurturing contribution to the culture of this planet so far? Many would say jazz. I, who love jazz, will say this instea….

We have such a young culture that there is an opportunity to contribute wonderful new myths to it, which will be accepted..

Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but the living room in your fortified compound..

What passes for culture in my head is really a bunch of commercials..

I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone..

If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?.

I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked him if he'd been drunk the night before, he would always answer offhandedly, 'Oh, I imagine….

The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart..

Anyway -- because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about next -- and how we sho….

Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what….

If somebody says, "I love you," to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that whic….

The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms..

Earthlings are the great explainers, explaining why this event is structured as it is, telling how other events may be achieved or avoided..

I don't know what's going on, and I'm probably not smart enough to understand if somebody was to explain it to me. All I know is we're being tested s….

I will say, too, that lovemaking, if sincere, is one of the best ideas Satan put in the apple she gave to the serpent to give to Eve. The best idea i….