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

First there was a young guy sitting in front of television in a T-shirt drinking beer with his mother, then there was an older fatter person sitting in front of television in a T-shirt drinking beer with his mother.

Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary.

I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don't mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.

I've seen villages in South America with no police whatever. Then the cops would arrive, then the sanitary inspectors, and before you know it they've got all the problems - crime, juvenile delinquency, the whole works - just like us.

All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war.

Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life.