It's so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.

New York has always been going to hell but somehow it never gets there.

If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at night and you do that for a week, you are getting pretty close to nothingness.

In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty.

I have been a lifelong Democrat. Like all ideas, though, the Democrat ideas need to be dynamic. It needs to be kept current.

The Church of Reason, like all institutions of the System, is based not on individual strength but upon individual weakness. What's really demanded in the Church of Reason is not ability, but inability. Then you are considered teachable. A truly able person is always a threat.

It's better to live with a sad truth than with all the happy progress talk you get up here in the North.