You can't work at a relationship; you can't control it. You have to be lucky and go through your life. If you are not lucky you have to be prepared for some degree of suffering. That's why most relationships are very difficult and have some degree of pain. People stay together because of inertia, they don't have the energy. Because they are frightened of being lonely, or they have children.

It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to.

I heard that Commentary and Dissent had merged and formed Dysenery.

The prison psychiatrist asked me if I thought sex was dirty. I told him only when it's done right.

When you travel around the country, you see what a tough town New York is: rude, competitive, a town where good, logical ideas are ignored in favor of unworkable ones. And yet, all these other towns are so dead and boring compared to New York.

You rely too much on brain. The brain is the most overrated organ.

One man starving puts a crimp in my evening.