You're better equipped for this world than I am," she said. "I'm always trying to change the world. You know how to live in it.

In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create order. In times such as ours, however, when there is too much order, too much management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relive the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption.

Get yourself in that extreme state of being next to madness. You should always write with an erection. Even if you're a woman.

There's a certain Buddhistic calm that comes from having... money in the bank.

Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.

The enemy is the tyranny of the dull mind.

Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical. If there's any one word -- if you had to pick one word to describe the nature of the universe -- I think that word would be paradox. That's true at the subatomic level, right through sociological, psychological, philosophical levels on up to cosmic levels.