Ideas on earth were badges of friendship or enimity. Their content did not matter. Friends agreed with friends, in order to express friendliness. Enemies disagreed with enemies, in order to express enimity.

Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.

We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kids who haven't figured that out by the time they're ten.... Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard and be misinformed.

They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.

No art is possible without a dance with death.

I have no culture, no humane harmony in my brains. I can't live without a culture anymore.