Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?

A functioning police state needs no police.

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.

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

What are Americans? We've got everything from sharecroppers to atomic physicist here, and there's certainly no uniformity in their thought processes. There's very little they have in common. In fact, Americans should we say, have less in common than any other nationality.

There is only one thing a writer can write about: what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing... I am a recording instrument... I do not presume to impose "story" "plot" "continuity"... Insofar as I succeed in Direct recording of certain areas of psychic process I may have limited function... I am not an entertainer.

Hemingway said: 'It don't come anymore.' So where did it go?