As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon smoking opium in a yellow pongee silk suit. They sniffed cocaine in Mayfair and they penetrated forbidden swamps with a faithful native boy and lived in the native quarter of Tangier smoking hashish and languidly caressing a pet gazelle.

Now all politicians assume a necessity of control, the more efficient the control the better.

The dark Gods of pain are surfacing from the immemorial filth of time.

The more absolute the need, the more predictable the behavior becomes until it is mathematically certain.

Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.

I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren't cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it.

No atomic physicist has to worry, people will always want to kill other people on a mass scale. Sure, he's got the fridge full of sausages and spring water.