Make war not on terrorism but on ignorance, on sickness and on environmental degradation.

Shrapnel was invented by an Englishman of the same name. Don't you wish you could have something named after you?

There is nothing left of him but curiosity and a pair of eyes.

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

It often is a terrible insult to some families if one of the kids turns out to be an artist and that's one way to really shake up the family if you haven't got nerve enough to turn into a homosexual.

If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC

And what is literature, Rabo," he said, "but an insider's newsletter about affairs relating to molecules, of no importance to anything in the universe but a few molecules who have the disease called 'thought'.