When someone is impatient and says, 'I haven't got all day,' I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?

If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

The whole problem with this idea of obscenity and indecency, and all of these things - bad language and whatever - it's all caused by one basic thing, and that is: religious superstition.

Rhetoric paints with a broad brush.

If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do the rest drown too?

One of the effects it [cocaine] had on my personality - my moods, my behaviors - was that it inhibited me a lot. It kind of took possibilities out of my world, and made the focus of things very narrow.

I don't really identify with America, I don't really feel like an American or part of the American experience, and I don't really feel like a member of the human race, to tell you the truth. I know I am, but I really don't. All the definitions are there, but I don't really feel a part of it. I think I have found a detached point of view, an ideal emotional detachment from the American experience and culture and the human experience and culture and human choices.