The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

The model of modern Western civilization is the virus: the pure bit of information, which turns its environment into endless reproductions of itself.

I have decided that the trouble with print is, it never changes its mind.

Secondhand experience breaks down a block from the car lot.

Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.

Abstractions about right and wrong, whether they are as old as Thou Shalt Not Kill or as modern as Do Your Own Thing, often serve only to confuse and weaken genuine moral decision.

Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is without significance.

The pornography of violence of course far exceeds, in volume and general acceptance, sexual pornography, in this Puritan land of ours.

The great authors share their souls with us- "literally."

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.