Everything about life is a joke. Don't you know that?
Science is magic that works.
We are what we pretend to be so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
You'll forget it when you're dead, and so will I. When I'm dead, I'm going to forget everything–and I advise you to do the same.
Maturity, the way I understand it, is knowing what your limitations are.
I think, therefore I am, therefore I am photographable.
Simply moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a tho...
Life is no way to treat an animal.
As for literary criticism in general: I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel or a play or a poem is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full...
Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people d...
We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
Society is more concerned with material possessions than it is with the true love and compassion of another human being.
Be patient, Ophelia.
There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind.
Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
My own feeling is that if adultery is wickedness then so is food. Both make me feel so much better afterward.
America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor...
This country is being managed to death, being public related to death.
The New York Daily News suggested that my biggest war crime was not killing myself like a gentleman. Presumably Hitler was a gentleman.