There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.

You'll forget it when you're dead, and so will I. When I'm dead, I'm going to forget everything–and I advise you to do the same.

Nowadays, of course, just about our only solvent industry is the merchandising of death, bankrolled by our grandchildren, so that the message of our principal art forms, movies and television and political speeches and newspaper columns, for the sake of the economy, simply has to be this: War is hell, all right, but the only way a boy can become a man is in a shoot-out of some kind, preferably, but by no means necessarily, on a battlefield.

Tis better to have love and lust Than to let our apparatus rust.

The heartbreaking necessity of lying about reality and the heartbreaking impossibilty of lying about it