Not everybody thought they could be a dentist or an automobile mechanic but everybody knew they could be a writer.

and now sometimes I'm interviewed, they want to hear about life and literature and I get drunk and hold up my cross-eyed, shot, runover de-tailed cat and I say,"look, look at this!" but they don't understand, they say something like,"you say you've been influenced by Celine?" no," I hold the cat up,"by what happens, by things like this, by this, by this!

The human heart, as of course we all know is essentially good

I've learned to feel good when I feel good. it's better to be driven around in a red porsche than to own one. the luck of the fool is inviolate.

Love dries up, I thought as I walked back to the bathroom, even faster than sperm.

No matter how little a man has he will find that he will always settle for less.

More often than not Democratic Law works to the advantage of the few even though the many have voted; this, of course, is because the few have told them how to vote.