I went to New York to be born again. And when the train plunged into a tunnel under New York City, with its lining of pipes and wires, I was out of the womb and into the birth canal.

Shrapnel was invented by an Englishman of the same name. Don't you wish you could have something named after you?

A lot of critics think I'm stupid because my sentences are so simple and my method is so direct: they think these are defects. No. The point is to write as much as you know as quickly as possible.

We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms. I used to think that science would save us, and science certainly tried. But we can't stand any more tremendous explosions, either for or against democracy.

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

You can only be funny if you have matters of great importance on your mind.

And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.