I'm odd, I know,' he said. 'It's fear of myself that's made me odd.

This person has just arrived on this planet, knows nothing about it, has no standards by which to judge it. This person does not care what it becomes. It is eager to become absolutely anything it is supposed to be.

I couldn't help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for--to find out how much a man could take without breaking.

My soul knows my meat is doing bad things, and is embarrassed. But my meat just keeps right on doing bad, dumb things.

Our government's got a war on drugs. That's certainly better than no drugs at all.

God damn it, you've got to be kind.

I think that scientific persons of the future will scoff at scientific persons of the present. They will scoff because scientific persons of the present thought so many important things were superstitious.