I like change and I like contrast.
A skunk is better company than a person who prides himself on being 'frank'.
[T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously-after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important. . . so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be ignorant and subliterate every time he opens his mouth.
Don't tell me violence doesn't solve anything. Look at Carthage.
It is better to copulate than never.
You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, (cont. Specialization is for insects.
I like first class, but I don't like first class people - I prefer the people in coach. I like fine restaurants, but prefer the taste of McDonalds. I like to be perfect, but I don't like perfection - I think it's dangerous. There is nothing after perfection. I know, I am a walking contradiction.
No social system will bring us happiness, health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.
I do what I do because it seems to be critically missing in the world and I want to see it not-happen.
It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.