He became fubar in the classic way, which is to say that he was the victim of a temporary arrangement that became permanent.

Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten.

The German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, who had syphilis, said that only a person of deep faith could afford the luxury of religious skepticism. Humanists, by and large educated, comfortably middle-class persons with rewarding lives like mine, find rapture enough in secular knowledge and hope. Most people can't.

The big show is inside my head.

Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.

That’s the secret of artistic unity. Anybody can achieve it, if he or she will make something with only one person in mind.

Wake up, you idiots! Whatever made you think that money was so valuable?