... humanity deserved to die horribly, since it had behaved so cruelly and wastefully on a planet so sweet.

Everybody knows that the dumbest people in any American university are in the education department, and English after that.

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.

I've often thought there ought to be a manual to hand to little kids, telling them what kind of planet they're on, why they don't fall off it, how much time they've probably got here, how to avoid poison ivy, and so on.

I was raised by a black maid by the name of Ida Young and I probably talked to her more than anybody, so whatever is nutty about me was nutty about her, too, I think because I saw a lot more of her than I did of my parents.

Suicide is the punctuation mark at the end of many artistic careers

Hate, in the long run, is about as nourishing as cyanide.