He couldn't tell the difference between one politician and another. They were all formlessly enthusiastic chimpanzees to him.

Any scientist who can't explain to an eight-year-old what he is doing is a charlatan.

The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide.

And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

Montana was naked, and so was Billy, of course. He had a tremendous wang, incidentally. You never know who'll get one.

The heartbreaking necessity of lying about reality and the heartbreaking impossibilty of lying about it

They like life alright, but that they would like it even better if they could know that it was going to end sometime.