Your being born makes your parents God. You owe them your life, and they can control you. Then puberty makes you Satan, just because you want something better.

The problem in this case was you can't be a middle-aged virgin in America without something being wrong with you. People can't conceive of a virtue in someone else that they can't conceive in themselves. Instead of believing you're stronger, it's so much easier to imagine you're weaker.

Anybody's true nature is bullshit. There is no human soul. Emotion is bullshit. Love is bullshit.

Rant Casey used to say, "No matter what happens, it's always now..." Talk about cryptic. I think what Rant meant was, we live in the present moment of reality, and no matter what's come before, no matter how much we loved a person or a dog, when it attacks us we'll react to that moment of danger.

We'll never be as young as we are tonight.

It's the Marilyn Monroe school of medicine where enough of any drug will cure any disease.

Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.