Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born.

When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she—or he, of course, as the case may be—must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering.

If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

God: a gaseous vertebrate.

The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.

Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched.