The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.

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

Like pregnant women lose their teeth feeding the stranger, junkies lose their yellow fangs feeding the monkey.

The youth rebellion [1968] is a worldwide phenomenon that has not been seen before in history. I do not believe they will calm down ad be ad execs at thirty as the Establishment would like us to believe.

For any species to change, if they are unable and are unwilling to do so - I might, for example, have suggested to the dinosaurs that heavy armor and great size was a sinking ship, and that they do well to convert to mammal facilities - it would not lie in my power or desire to reconvert a reluctant dinosaur.

There's a boy across the river with an ass like a peach; alas I was no swimmer and lost my Clementine.

You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I go on writing. My answer is most emphatically yes. I would go on writing for company. Because I'm creating an imaginary - it's always imaginary - world in which I would like to live.