You can only be funny if you have matters of great importance on your mind.

No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful.

There are plenty of good reasons for fighting...but no good reason to ever hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty hates with you, too. Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side. It's that part of every man that finds all kinds of ugliness so attractive....it's that part of an imbecile that punishes and vilifies and makes war gladly.

If you really want to hurt your parents and you don't have nerve enough to be homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts.

I couldn't help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for--to find out how much a man could take without breaking.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

Where men had once howled and hacked at one another, and fought nip-and-tuck with nature as well, the machines hummed and whirred and clicked, and made parts for baby carriages and bottle caps, motorcycles and refrigerators, television sets and tricycles-the fruits of peace.