What had made me move through so many dead and pointless years was curiosity.

You had to get everything exactly right or the editors would give you hell.

The artist makes his living by pretending, by putting it in a meaningful hole though no such holes exist.

What passes for culture in my head is really a bunch of commercials.

The most racist, nastiest act by America, after human slavery, was the bombing of Nagasaki. Not of Hiroshima, which might have had some military significance. But Nagasaki was purely blowing away yellow men, women, and children. I'm glad I'm not a scientist because I'd feel so guilty now.

If you can do no good, at least do no harm.

Mere opinions, in fact, were as likely to govern people's actions as hard evidence, and were subject to sudden reversals as hard evidence could never be.