I have a great deal of experience in justifying myself to myself.

All information of a spiritual or personal nature will have to come from our father, who art in heaven, and I think he's in New York right now.

He had a habit of remarking to bartenders that he didn't see any sense in mixing whiskey with water since the whiskey was already wet.

When I get through tearing a lobster apart, or one of those tender West Coast octopuses, I feel like I had a drink from the fountain of youth.

Also, I had not yet found out about time; I was still under the illusion that I had plenty of time - time for this, time for that, time for everything, time to waste.

...you can hate a place with all your heart and soul and still be homesick for it.

Life is a goddam mess...but you wouldn't want to miss it!

My dad was a cotton buyer and cotton buyers always considered themselves superior to the rest of the world.

Learn, or you'll be made to learn.

Sometimes the rules don't work. Sometimes the rules cause the anarchy.

The most dangerous and wonderful creature alive is the human.

A deep soul lives in conscious awareness of eternity, not simply today.

I want you to be my black vulture:forever monogamous!

What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves.

The subtle physical body protects the body's physical health. It is the radiant life force that is you. When you get sick, it is because there is a problem with your subtle physical body.

The stronger our gun control laws are, the fewer acts of violence.

Their [the Jews] rotten and unbending stiffneckedness deserves that they be oppressed unendingly and without measure or end and that they die in their misery without the pity of anyone.

The secret to economic growth lay in the fact that that each generation attacked Nature not only with its own energies and resources, but with the heritage of equipment accumulated by its forebears.