Heterosexuality is the opiate of the masses

No revolution without sexual revolution. No sexual revolution without homosexual revolution.

I have always been first and foremost a cinephile, so making references to other films is second nature to me.

...my dreams are tangled in images of stars and clouds and firelight - we go camping at night - it's my lucid dream of being with you...

Why die on Mars when you can live in South Dakota? South Dakota, you can live here.

I was the adoring son of a Welsh-Irish father, a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat, a Catholic Knight of Columbus who was a blue-collar, trade union organizer and, not surprisingly, a fervid Nixon-hater.

I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.

I understand the difference between journalism and scholarship that comes 20 years later.

I've tried different things through the years to get some play on mainstream. I'll try to tailor-make it.

Keep learning; don't be arrogant by assuming that you know it all, that you have a monopoly on the truth; always assume that you can learn something from someone else.

Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from. . . . Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness.

Why I have had such a huge career and why I have sold over four million books, is that people can do what I share with them to do.

These are the days that try man's heart.