Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.

The prostitutes worked for a pimp now. He was splendid and cruel. He was a god to them. He took their free will away from them, which was perfectly all right. They didn't want it anyway. It was as though they had surrendered themselves to Jesus, for instance, so they could live unselfishly and trustingly-except that they had surrendered to a pimp instead.

War is now a form of TV entertainment, and what made the First World War so particularly entertaining were two American inventions, barbed wire and the machine gun.

I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle.

Love is where you find it.

Let there be nothing harmonious about our children's playthings, lest they grow up expecting peace and order, and be eaten alive.

What is my definition of jazz? "Safe sex of the highest order."