The unfed mind devours itself.

I'm in favor of sexual encounters.

No one reads novels anymore. And I don't see the situation improving. People prefer video games, reality TV, and films. There are so many reasons now not to read novels.

Congress no longer declares war or makes budgets. So that's the end of the constitution as a working machine.

The American press exists for one purpose only, and that is to convince Americans that they are living in the greatest and most envied country in the history of the world. The Press tells the American people how awful every other country is and how wonderful the United States is and how evil communism is and how happy they should be to have freedom to buy seven different sorts of detergent.

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

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