I hope that my ideas attract a lively dialogue, even if my sentences are simple. Simple sentences have always served me well. And I don't use semicol….

I want you to adore the Universe, to be easily delighted, but to be prompt as well with impatience with those artists who offend your own deep notion….

I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not to fill the….

But by accident, not by cunning calculation, books, because of their weight and texture, and because of their sweetly token resistance to manipulatio….

Evolution is a mistake. Humans are a mistake. We've destroyed our planet..

Poverty is a relatively mild disease for even a very flimsy American soul, but uselessness will kill strong and weak souls alike, and kill every time..

The name of the new religion, said Rumfoord, is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent. . . The two chief teachings of this religion are these: Pu….

Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak..

It posed the question posed by all such stone piles.: how had puny men moved stones so big? And, like all such stone piles, it answered the question ….

Literature is the only art in which the audience performs the score..

It is time for me to be dead for a little while - and then live again..

Our government's got a war on drugs. That's certainly better than no drugs at all..

Freud said he didn't know what women wanted. I know what women want. They want a whole lot of people to talk to..

When we passed a Catholic church, I recalled, he said, "You think your dad's a good chemist? They're turning soda crackers into meat in there. Can yo….

Powers Hapgood had just come from court because there was some kind of dust-up on a picket line. The judge was so curious about him - coming from a r….

Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe..

It was a thunderingly beautiful experience-voluptuous, sexual, dangerous, and expensive as hell..

You've got to be a good date for the reader..

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest..

I never asked to be born in the first place..

Oh, God — the lives people try to lead. Oh, God — what a world they try to lead them in..