What is my definition of jazz? "Safe sex of the highest order."

Mankind flung its advance agents ever outward, ever outward. Eventually it flung them out into space, into the colorless, tasteless, weightless sea of outwardness without end. It flung them like stones.

We have such a young culture that there is an opportunity to contribute wonderful new myths to it, which will be accepted.

Extenuating circumstance to be mentioned on Judgment Day: We never asked to be born in the first place.

the late twentieth century will go down in history, i'm sure, as an era of pharmaceutical buffoonery.

I want you to adore the Universe, to be easily delighted, but to be prompt as well with impatience with those artists who offend your own deep notions of what the Universe is or should be. ‘This above all ...’

Jokes have to be quite naked to be understood. They have to be quite simple.