Everyone should learn a manual trade: It's never too late to become an honest person.

Homosexuality, like androgyny, might be an instinctive racial response to overpopulation, crowding, and stress. Both flourish when empire reaches its apogee.

Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?

Most of the literary classics are worth reading, if you've nothing better to do.

There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.

I love America because it is a confused, chaotic mess - and I hope we can keep it this way for at least another thousand years. The permissive society is the free society.

Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.