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There is nothing left of him but curiosity and a pair of eyes.
A committee of three can accomplish much if two don't show up.
What is my definition of jazz? "Safe sex of the highest order."
Trust a crowd to look at the wrong end of a miracle every time.
To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.
Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.
Words may deeply wound us, but we must run that risk to be free.
Tis better to have love and lust Than to let our apparatus rust.
All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.
They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.
Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
A lack of seriousness has led to all sorts of wonderful insights.
You were sick, but now you're well again, and there's work to do.
Big, undreamed-of things — the people on the edge see them first.
Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.
My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV.
How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.
What good is a planet called Earth, after all, if you own no land?
This is Sunday, and the question arises, what'll I start tomorrow?
You don't do art for any other reason than to help your soul grow.
Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself.
We were German-Americans in a British colony, so we were outsiders.
George Bush and his gang imagine they are being political geniuses.
Suicide is the punctuation mark at the end of many artistic careers
She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies.
The secret to success in any human endeavor is total concentration.
Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.
We'd all do well to start over again, preferably with kindergarten.
I'm odd, I know,' he said. 'It's fear of myself that's made me odd.
That's what my books are, now that I'm a grownup - mosaics of jokes.
What passes for culture in my head is really a bunch of commercials.
Take care of the people, and God Almighty will take care of Himself.
Literature is the only art in which the audience performs the score.
The system promotes to the top those who don't care about the planet.
Teaching, may I say, is the noblest profession of all in a democracy.
It is time for me to be dead for a little while - and then live again.
This country is being managed to death, being public related to death.
Those who live by electronics die by electronics. Sic semper tyrannis.
People like to feel entitled, whether they're actually entitled or not.
It's the emptiest and yet the fullest of all human messages: 'Good-bye.
How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
If I am ever put to death on the hook, expect a very human performance.
Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been.
He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.
Think of what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise.
Maturity, the way I understand it, is knowing what your limitations are.
The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow.
Wake up, you idiots! Whatever made you think that money was so valuable?
I still catch myself feeling sad about things that don’t matter anymore.