In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don't kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.

My own opinion is enough for me. And I claim the right to defend it against any consensus, any majority anywhere, any place, any time. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line and kiss my ass.

Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.

He's a man [George W. Bush] who is lucky to be governor of Texas. He is a man who is unusually incurious, abnormally unintelligent, amazingly inarticulate, fantastically uncultured, extraordinarily uneducated, and apparently quite proud of all these things.

Human society is inconceivable unless words are to some extent bonds.

The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can't fly home.