We're living on the Planet of the Apes. Is that funny or serious?

Hippies generally aren't busy with anything except feeling sorry for themselves.

[My wife] liked to collect old encyclopedias from second-hand bookstores, and at one point we had eight of them. When I wrote my first historical novel---back in 1980, before I was online---I used them often as a research tool. For instance, I learned that the Bastille was either 90 feet high or 100 feet or 120 feet. This led me to formulate Wilson's 22nd Law: 'Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only look in one encyclopedia.'

Voting wouldn't excite me unless it included electing the directors of the big banks and corporations, who make the real decisions that affect our lives. It's hard to get excited about the trained seals in Washington.

A true initiation never ends.

We are all giants, raised by pygmies, who have learned to walk with a perpetual mental crouch.

Creativity has a touch of the bizarre