Hitler at the end thought that he himself was one more casualty in the war.

Smoking is the only honorable form of suicide.

It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems ... This is so untrue that it makes me want to cry-or laugh.

I have no culture, no humane harmony in my brains. I can't live without a culture anymore.

That specific remedy for the worldwide epidemic of depression is a gift called the blues.

A first grader should understand that her or his culture isn't a rational invention; that there are thousands of other cultures and they all work pretty well; that all cultures function on faith rather than truth; that there are lots of alternatives to our own society...Cultural relativity is defensible, attractive. It's a source of hope. It means we don't have to continue this way if we don't like it.

I never knew a writer's wife who wasn't beautiful.