Now each one of us, black or white, is a symbol. The war is out in the open and the skin color is a uniform. All the deep and basic similarities of the human condition are forgotten so that we can exaggerate the few differences that exist.

I am wary of the whole dreary deadening structured mess that we have built into such a glittering top-heavy structure that there is nothing left to see but the glitter, and the brute routines of maintaining it.

It's no good telling somebody they're trying too hard. It's very much like ordering a child to go stand in a corner for a half hour and never once think about elephants.

We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody threw the girl off the bridge.

Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather.

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

A man with a credit card is in hock to his own image of himself.