I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.

The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.

The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.