Tee Vee football: one team wins, one team loses -- they tie -- who cares? And why?

Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.

Running the big rapids is like sex: half the fun lies in the anticipation. Two thirds of the thrill with the approach. The remainder is only ecstasy-or darkness.

From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.

My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel.

The love of a man for his wife, his child, of the land where he lives and works, is for me the real meaning of mystical experience.

Only the half-mad are wholly alive.