The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty half-second clips in it, or one-third of a second. We bombard people with sensation. That substitutes for thinking.

If you have to ask yourself whether or not you love a girl or you love a boy, forget it. You don't.

The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

You grow ravenous. You run fevers. You know exhilarations. You can't sleep at night, because your beast-creature ideas want out and turn you in your bed. It is a grand way to live.

Oh God, the terrible tyranny of the majority. We all have our harps to play. And it's up to you to know with which ear you'll listen.

The river was mild and leisurely, going away from the people who ate shadows for breakfast and steam for lunch and vapors for supper.