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

I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud.

He is in a constant state of stage fright, he says, because he never knows what part of his life he is going to have to act in next

Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so.

You realize, of course, that everything I say is horseshit.

I wasn't aware of Ku Klux Klan as I was aware of the widespread assumption that African-Americans were dumber than white people. I think my father believed that. I think everybody white did.

What passes for culture in my head is really a bunch of commercials.