Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so.

It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave.

I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them.

Representative government has broken down. Our politicians represent not the people who vote for them but the commercial interests who finance their election campaigns. We have the best politicians that money can buy.

By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century.

If there's anything I hate, it's the vibraphone. And the cha-cha-cha. And Latin rhythms generally.

All serious writers want the obvious rewards: fame, money, women, love -- and most of all, an audience!