But anyway, it's obvious through human experience that extended families and tribes are terribly important. We can do without an extended family as human beings about as easily as we can do without vitamins or essential minerals.

Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.

Being an American means never having to say you're sorry.

Kilgore Trout once wrote a short story which was a dialogue between two pieces of yeast. They were discussing the possible purposes of life as they ate sugar and suffocated in their own excrement. Because of their limited intelligence, they never came close to guessing that they were making champagne.

the late twentieth century will go down in history, i'm sure, as an era of pharmaceutical buffoonery.

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

No one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.