Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an IQ of 60.

The United States is my subject, but as Hawthorne once wrote, "the United States are suited for many admirable purposes, but not to live in."

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

Nothing is durable, I think anybody who thinks sex is durable is going to have a lot of grief.

Love is a fan club with only two fans.

We're the most captive nation of slaves that ever came along. The moral timidity of the average American is quite noticeable. Everybody's afraid to be thought in any way different from everyone else.

Presidents have absolutely gone against the will of Congress. Congress hasn't declared a war since December 7, 1941, and yet we've been at war ever since with somebody or other in order to justify the war machine. Now we have alienated almost the entire earth