Thinking is not enough. Nothing is. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience — any f...ing thing.

They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some elephantiasis victim with his distended testicles in a wheelbarrow terrified no doubt that some skulking ingrate of a clone student will sneak into his very brain and steal his genius work.

The American uppermiddle-class citizen is a composite of negatives. He is largely delineated by what he is not.

Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.

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.

I like the shaman very much, the way he was crying.

If you wish to alter or annihilate a pyramid of numbers in a serial relation, you alter or remove the bottom number. If we wish to annihilate the junk pyramid, we must start with the bottom of the pyramid: the Addict in the Street, and stop tilting quixotically for the "higher ups" so called, all of whom are immediately replaceable. The addict in the street who must have junk to live is the one irreplaceable factor in the junk equation. When there are no more addicts to buy junk there will be no junk traffic. As long as junk need exists, someone will service it.