The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.

There has never been an 'original' sin: each is quite banal.

It may be true that my desk here is really 'nothing but' a transient eddy of electrons in the flux of universal process. Nevertheless, I find that it continues to support my feet, my revolver, and my cigars all day long. What happens when my back is turned I don't know. Or much care. That's no concern of mine.

Phoenix, Arizona: an oasis of ugliness in the midst of a beautiful wasteland.

My cousin Elroy spent seven years as an IBM taper staring at THINK signs on the walls before he finally got a good idea: He quit.

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

I have been a lucky man. But someone has to be.