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.

I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.

The streets were full of insane & dull people. Most of them lived in nice houses and didn't seem to work, and you wondered how they did it.

Hemingway and Saroyan had the line, the magic of it. The problem was that Hemingway didn't know how to laugh and Saroyan was filled with sugar.

I think I need a drink.' 'Almost everybody does only they don't know it.

Banion wondered which was worse - being sodomized by aliens, or having to sit through two hours of Charles Ives.

If you can hit a guy once, you can hit him twice.