Laughing is good exercise. It's like jogging on the inside.

There is no good reason good can't triumph over evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the mafia.

So I went to New York City to be born again. It was and remains easy for most Americans to go somewhere else and start anew. I wasn't like my parents. I didn't have any supposedly sacred piece of land or shoals of friends to leave behind. Nowhere has the number zero been of more philisophical value than in the United States.... and when the [train] plunged into a tunnel under New York City, with it's lining of pipes and wires, I was out of the womb and into the birth canal.

Since there is no one else to praise me, I will praise myself -- will say that I have never tampered with a single tooth in my thought machine, such as it is. There are teeth missing, God knows -- some I was born without, teeth that will never grow. And other teeth have been stripped by the clutchless shifts of history -- But never have I willfully destroyed a tooth on a gear of my thinking machine. Never have I said to myself, 'This fact I can do without.

Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad.

Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side.

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