“I thought about the current contamination of beaches, raw sewage spilling into oceans and streams, the hole in the ozone, forests being stripped, the toxic-waste dumps, the merry plunder of mankind added to the drought and the famine that nature dishes up annually as a matter of course. It's hard to know what's actually going to get us first. Sometimes I think we should just blow the whole planet and get it over with. It's the suspense that's killing me.”

“Books are like movies of the mind and it's better to leave Kinsey where she is.”

“We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.”

“It never pays to deal with the flyweights of the world. They take far too much pleasure in thwarting you at every turn.”

“I love being single. It's almost like being rich.”

“Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.”

“There's only so much room at the top of the heap. The rest of us are fill dirt.”

“I love being single. It's almost like being rich.”

“I write letters to my right brain all the time. They're just little notes. And right brain, who likes to get little notes from me, will often come through within a day or two.”

“Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.”

“The dead are mute, but the living still have voice with which to protest their innocence. Often their objections are noisy and pious, impossible to refute since the person who could condemn them has been silenced forever.”