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.

Belief is nearly the whole of the universe whether based on truth or not.

Be patient, Ophelia. Love, Hamlet

I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine.

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.

Much of the conversation in the country consisted of lines from television shows, both past and present.

The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.