Never take liquor into the bedroom. Don't stick anything in your ears. Be anything but an architect. Live in a nice country rather than a powerful one. Power makes everybody crazy. Get somebody to teach you to play a musical instrument.

What can any one person do?' he said. 'Each person does a little something,' I said, 'and there you are.

All people are insane. They will do anything at any time, and God help anybody who looks for reasons.

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.

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

My soul knows my meat is doing bad things, and is embarrassed. But my meat just keeps right on doing bad, dumb things.

I am a monopolar depressive descended from monopolar depressives. That's how come I write so good.