and he would probably not agree with my conviction that a sense of humor is the main measure of sanity. But who can say for sure? Humor is a very private thing.

Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.

Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.

Weird behavior is natural in smart children, just as curiosity is to a kitten.

[Polo Is My Life] is what's called a sex book - you know, sex, drugs and rock and roll. It's about the manager of a sex theater who's forced to leave and flee to the mountains. He falls in love and gets in even more trouble than he was in the sex theater in San Francisco. Most of my stories are tales of anguish, stress and grief.

Every deadline was a crisis … No doubt it has something to do with a deep-seated personality defect, or maybe a kink in whatever blood vessel leads into the pineal gland … On the other hand, it might easily be something as simple and basically perverse as whatever instinct it is that causes a jackrabbit to wait until the last possible second to dart across the road in front of a speeding car.

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.