Capitalism sounds good in theory but it just doesn't work.

Music is a savage art, a measured madness.

There are only two kinds of books -- good books and the others. The good are winnowed from the bad through the democracy of time.

Football is a game for trained apes. That, in fact, is what most of the players are -- retarded gorillas wearing helmets and uniforms. The only thing more debased is the surrounding mob of drunken monkeys howling the gorillas on.

What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.

My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.

The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.