The triumph of anything is a matter of organization.

I'm odd, I know,' he said. 'It's fear of myself that's made me odd.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

I say the same thing about the death of James Wait. "Oh, well -- he wasn't going to write the Beethoven's Ninth Symphony anyway.

I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer.

During the Vietnam War, which lasted longer than any war we've ever been in - and which we lost - every respectable artist in this country was against the war. It was like a laser beam. We were all aimed in the same direction. The power of this weapon turns out to be that of a custard pie dropped from a stepladder six feet high.

The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.