You're all going to die. I hate to remind you, but it is on your schedule. It probably won't happen when you'd like; generally, it's an inconvenience.

It was just a compulsion. In fact, I soon realized that the only thing I really enjoyed was the actual snorting.

I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.

We will never be an advanced civilization as long as rain showers can delay the launching of a space rocket.

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

I don't care much about the outcome. I'd like for people to feel better and have better lives, but I don't think that's in the cards through political action. I think bloodshed is still the way you get dramatic change. That'll never happen because they've got all the guns now. At least they've got the nice guns, the big ones, the ones with night vision.

I never take credit for anything, because it's mostly genetic to my way of thinking. Even the need to work hard with some genetic talent you're given - the need to go out and develop it, and push hard to bring it to people.