I was too pessimistic for an optimist to live with
Have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone
It was with deep, idiotic relief that I leaned on that fleshy, humid, barn-yard fool.
This moment and every moment lasts forever.
It is a big temptation to me, when I create a character for a novel, to say that he is what he is because of faulty wiring, or because of microscopic amounts of chemicals which he ate or failed to eat on that particular day.
Younger scientists are extremely sensitive to the moral implications of all they do.
I have no degree in biochemistry, neither do I have one in mechanical engineering, as the army saw fit to terminate both courses before they were finished.
There is never a shortage anywhere of lawyers eager to attack the first amendment, as though it were nothing more than a clause in a lease from a crooked slumlord.
I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.
I now make my living by being impolite. I am clumsy at it.
We could have saved the earth but we were too damned cheap.
Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.
there is a specter haunting europe, the specter of communism.
Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.
If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a marxist.
Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
Democracy is the road to socialism.
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
Succeeding is performing at your best when your best is required