Some people are better imagined in one's bed than found there in the morning.

We like to pile language on language. Hunter [ S. Thompson] was an influence on me, no doubt about it.

It's much better to have your arguments dismissed because you might be joking than to have your arguments dismissed because you're not telling the truth.

Creative writing teachers should be purged until every last instructor who has uttered the words 'Write what you know' is confined to a labor camp. Please, talented scribblers, write what you don't. The blind guy with the funny little harp who composed The Iliad, how much combat do you think he saw?

Never strike anyone so old, small or weak that verbal abuse would have sufficed.

There are just two rules of governance in a free society: Mind your own business. Keep your hands to yourself.

And, by the way, how come all the people who were so in favor of unilateral nuclear disarmament are so opposed to unilateral protection against nukes?