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

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.

Seems like the only kind of job an American can get these days is committing suicide in some way.

Truth can be really powerful stuff if you're not expecting it.

We don't make bicycles anymore. It's all human relations now. The eggheads sit around trying to figure out new ways for everyone to be happy. Nobody can get fired, no matter what; and if somebody does accidentally make a bicycle, the union accuses us of cruel and inhuman practices and the government confiscates the bicycle for back taxes and gives it to a blind man in Afghanistan.

He did not think of himself as a writer for the simple reason that the world had never allowed him to think of himself in this way.

Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.