I don't hate women, but I think they should be kept in cages.

To be married to a good woman is to live with tender surprise.

A democracy depends upon people getting brighter all the time. Democracies are delicate. They're not just ipso facto and just go on and on.

One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. One feels one's being, one becomes aware of the enormous apparatus of nothingness - the hum of a hi-fi set, the emptiness of a pointless interruption, one becomes aware of the war between each of us, how the nothingness in each of us seeks to attack the being of others, how our being in turn is attacked by the nothingness in others.

I am not here only so that the blind might see, but to teach those who thought they could see that they are blind

The art of the novel is to arrive at that artless point where your characters become more real than yourself.

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.