Nobody who lived through the '50s thought the '60s could've existed. So there's always hope..

You`ve got to just follow the money [in Washington]. You see it. There`s no countervailing power..

We're in a psuedoscientific technobabble..

How much does your life have to suck to want the Apocalypse?.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him..

I have not been a success, and probably never will be..

That the stars guide us, but do not compel us. It is our free will that determines the outcome of all things. God does impose his will on us, rather ….

There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules..

It is always hazardous to express what one has to say indirectly and allusively..

No one actually lives as if there is no objective truth..

What poetry can, must, and will always do for us: it complicates us, it doesn’t ‘soothe.’.

I always do things before I go on a case and when I leave a case. I even do that when I'm out on the road..

I don't like closed systems..

I don't pull, I just receive..

Now I see -- we are always most revolted by the things hidden within us..

Fate does not always seek our consent..

Being precedes Truth, and ... Truth precedes the Good..

Success is less rare than the courage to attempt it..

When does the mind put forth its powers? when are the stores of memory unlocked? when does wit 'flash from fluent lips?' -- when but after a good din….

Always say less than necessary..

We see not our own backs..