Besides the drugs and counterculture, I started talking about myself, which is the first thing you do when you are a writer.

There's a humorous side to every situation. The challenge is to find it.

Sex always has consequences. When Hitler's mother spread her legs that night, she effectively canceled out the spreading of fifteen to twenty million other pairs of legs.

Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.

Sometimes, after I'd gone at the coke like one of those snow plows moving up First Avenue, I'd think my heart was over on the dresser, pounding, and I was watching it. I asked some of the doctors who drifted through the intensive-care unit what kind of effect total cocaine abuse has on the heart and they said things like, "Well, there's not enough valid information...." That kind of answer.

Christians worship a dead Jew on a stick

When he got loaded, the human cannonball knew there were not many men of his caliber.