I had taught myself that a human being might as well look for diamond tiaras in the gutter as for rewards and punishments that were fair.

Nice, nice, very nice.

I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't going to want to go on living.

Jokes have to be quite naked to be understood. They have to be quite simple.

Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, and not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.

But he is tired. He puts the pistol to his head again. He says, “I never asked to be born in the first place.

The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.