Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful.

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.

The nice part about living in a small town is that when you don't know what you're doing, someone else does.

When one creates phantoms for oneself, one puts vampires into the world, and one must nourish these children of a voluntary nightmare with one's blood, one's life, one's intelligence, and one's reason, without ever satisfying them.

I still believe in Hope - mostly because there's no such place as Fingers Crossed, Arkansas.

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

Only fools are positive.

The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead.

Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.

Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry.

If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.