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

We were German-Americans in a British colony, so we were outsiders.

In the middle of Siberia I guess there's a lake that big [ like the Great Lakes], but there are practically no other lakes that big with fresh water.

My own feeling is that if adultery is wickedness then so is food. Both make me feel so much better afterward.

Those who live by electronics die by electronics. Sic semper tyrannis.

Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters or novelists of my time. Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.

Everything that ever has been always will be, and everything that ever will be always has been.