I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, "I am not paid to listen to this drivel - you are a terminal fool!" Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.

If the soft machine works, don't fix it. If it works, don't fix it.

Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.

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.

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.