The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set-up by the non-dreamers.
Cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
Well as, one judge said to the other, ‘Be just and if you can’t be just be arbitrary.’ Regret cannot observe customary obscenities.
When he smiled the fear flew away in little pieces of light...
The rudeness of many Americans depressed him, a rudeness based on a solid ignorance of the whole concept of manners, and on the proposition that for social purposes, all people are more or less equal and interchangeable.
Sit down on your ass, or what’s left of it after four years in the navy.
There is a Senate and a Congress who carry on endless sessions discussing garbage disposal and outhouse inspection, the only two questions over which they have jurisdiction.
It is not the intensity but the duration of pain that breaks the will to resist.
After the shot he collapsed on the bed and lay there inert, but something was stirring in his spine from neck to the tail – and now pieces tore loose in the eggs and then a red, glistening head emerges in reeking yellow slime – and then the whole centipede crawling out quick.
Now, boys, you won’t see this operation performed very often and there’s a reason for that... You see it has absolutely no medical value. No one knows what the purpose of it originally was or if it had a purpose at all. Personally I think it was a pure artistic creation from the beginning.
We intend to destroy all dogmatic verbal systems.
What a horrible loutish planet this is. The dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. Hopeless rubbish.
Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
Paranoia is just having the right information.
The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’