Writers, like elephants, have long, vicious memories. There are things I wish I could forget.

The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time... and you can't see it if you refuse to face the possibility.

Whatever happened to God's justice? I am convinced that God exist and God is one asshole.

You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.

You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

The program of the ruling elite in Orwell's 1984 was: "A foot stamping on a human face forever!" This is naive and optimistic. No species could survive for even a generation under such program. This is not a program of eternal, or even long-range dominance. It is clearly an extermination program.

If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.