Even in a fake democracy, people ought to get what they want once in a while.

I don't have hobbies; hobbies cost money. Interests are quite free.

At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.

I think we overrate ourselves in terms of our abilities and capacities. I mean, just because you can build a really swell bridge doesn't, to my way of thinking, mean that you're an advanced civilization.

You know, if a drug has anything going for it at all, it should be self-limiting. It should tell you when you've had enough. Acid and peyote were that way for me.

I find that an entertainer is quite content to sit still, and I think an artist always has a little motion, always going somewhere. May not know where it is, but there is some sort of unnamed destination. There is some pulling, some movement. So I just found myself in that category according to my own analysis.

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.