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.

Only nut cases want to be president. This was true even in high school. Only clearly disturbed people ran for class president.

Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue, the monograph went on. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact how hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves.

We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.

How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.

The master of ceremonies asked people to say what they thought the function of the novel might be in modern society, and one critic said, “To provide touches of color in rooms with all-white walls.” Another one said, “To describe blow-jobs artistically.

I couldn't help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for--to find out how much a man could take without breaking.