My purpose is to entertain myself first and other people secondly.

Up with life. Stamp out all small and large indignities. Leave everyone alone to make it without pressure. Down with hurting. Lower the standard of living. Do without plastics. Smash the servo-mechanisms. Stop grabbing. Snuff the breeze and hug the kids. Love all love. Hate all hate.

This was not some pretty little girl, coyly flirtatious, delicately stimulated. This was the mature female of the species, vivid, handsome and strong demanding that all the life within her be matched. Her instinct would detect any hedging, any dishonesty, any less than complete response to her - and then she would be gone for good.

The only thing that prisons demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.

When you see the ugliness behind the tears of another person, it makes you take a closer look at your own.

The only thing in the world worth a damn is the strange, touching, pathetic, awesome nobility of the individual human spirit.

People cannot endure inexplicable worthlessness