I don't think drugs are a problem; I think they're a symptom. As long as Americans are empty, spiritually, emotionally, morally empty, they will need things like the drugs they choose to use. Mankind has wanted to change the way it felt from the beginning anyway. In this country there are even more reasons to want to feel different, to want to feel better, because this is such a neon sewer. This is such a degrading culture. It forces you to play Beethoven to your child in the uterus so that he will get into a better school and a better job and make more money so he can take care of you.

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

A crumb is a great thing: If you break a crumb in half, you don't get two half-crumbs, you get two crumbs. Doesn't that violate some law of physics?

There was a built-in audience for the rebel in me that had been all along not expressing himself.

A house is just a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff.

One great thing about getting old is that you can get out of all sorts of social obligations just by saying you're too tired.

Engineers at General Motors have developed a revolutionary new engine whose only function is to lubricate itself.