There is nothing like death to say what is always such an artificial thing to say: The End.

Human beings will believe in all kinds of things that aren't true, and that's okay. And TV is a part of that.

It is, in the imagination of combat's fans, the divinely listless loveplay that follows the orgasm of victory. It is called 'mopping up.

The Bible may be the Greatest Story Ever Told, but the most popular story you can ever tell is about a good-looking couple having a really swell time copulating outside wedlock, and having to quit for one reason or another while doing it is still a novelty.

It's all like an ocean!" cried Dostoevski. I say it's all like cellophane.

Honest to God, Bill, the way things are going, all I can think of is that I'm a character in a book by somebody who wants to write about somebody who suffers all the time.

I've been living alone for so long, everything about me’s private. I’m surprised anyone’s able to understand a word I say.