the late twentieth century will go down in history, i'm sure, as an era of pharmaceutical buffoonery.

I was a student in the Department of Anthropology. At that time, they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody. They may be teaching that still.

Of course, socialism is just evil now. It's completely discredited supposedly by the collapse of the Soviet Union, but I can't help noticing that my grandchildren are heavily in hock to Communist China now which is evidently a whole lot better at business than we are.

If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I'm grateful that so many of those moments are nice.

It seems to me that the most universal revolutionary wish now or ever is a wish for heaven, a wish by a human being to be honored by angels for something other than beauty or usefulness.

Tis better to have love and lust Than to let our apparatus rust.

[I write] intuitively, reflexively, as if skiing down a steep mountain slope with no time to think.