The danger with hatred is, once you start in on it, you get a hundred times more than you bargained for. Once you start, you can't stop.

Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?

Doctor doctor, what do you say, lets put the id back in yid

The secret to living in the rush of the world with a minimum of pain is to get as many people as possible to string along with your delusions.

I kept waiting for him to lay bare something more than this pointed unobjectionableness, but all that rose to the surface was more surface

What I would really love to happen to me would be if I came upon an idea that would keep me busy until I die so I wouldn't have to go through the business of thinking up a new book. But I wouldn't mind writing a long book which is going to occupy me for the rest of my life.

I work just as much as I always worked. And I can't explain the fact that there have been a series of books coming rather regularly out of me. I work most days and if you work most days and you get at least a page done a day, then at the end of the year you have 365. So the pages accumulate and then I publish the books.