There’s a thin line between collectivity and chaos...
It really doesn’t take brains to be a politician as much as it takes stomach. Both would be nice, but in America we have accepted diminishing returns in this arena.
In art as in politics we must deal with people as they are not as we wish them to be. Only by working with the real can you get closer to the ideal.
Possession of a secret is no guarantee of its truth.
If Michaelangelo were a heterosexual, the Sistine Chapel would have been painted basic white and with a roller.
Once you know what women are like, men get kind of boring. I’m not trying to put them down, I mean I like them sometimes as people, but sexually they’re dull.
I don’t expect executives to be creative but I do expect them to have courage.
The last thing I have to say is that ice is the past tense of water. I’ve always wanted to write that sentence and now I have.
A narcissism shared by two.
I think of birth as the search for a larger apartment.
It’s an act of faith to be a writer in a post literate world.
Never hope for it more than you work for it.
Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful – it’s made for the losers.
I hate the telephone. I think the lowest circle of hell is reserved for Alexander Graham Bell.
In America the word revolutionary is used to sell pantyhose.
Sex is a pleasurable exercise in plumbing, but be careful or you’ll get yeast in your drain tap.
Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.
The human animal dances wildest on the edge of the grave.
Lesbianism, politically organized, is the greatest threat that exists to male supremacy.
Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves.