I suppose that one is always tempted to challenge those who think that they and they alone possess the truth or the way or the key to the mystery.

I'm devoted to promiscuity, and always have been. I believe the more you do, the better it is for you. I'm a great health nut, and sex is, I think, absolutely marvelous for the whole system; tones you up.

Private lives should be no business of the State. The State is bad enough as it is. It cannot educate or medicate or feed the people; it cannot do anything but kill the people. No State like that do we want prying into our private lives.

Those who have not undergone minor disasters are usually being held in reserve for something major

If Henry Miller often sounded like a village idiot, it is because, like Whitman, he was the rest of the village as well.

What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?

Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.