"Never pass by a chance to shut up."

"What value is lineage to a drowning man?"

"Anything big and strange always upsets the people in power."

"May I be struck dead for saying this if I don’t mean it with all my heart: I wish the Lord and all his prophets would…"

"“Moas aren’t very bright,” Gracchus answers. “That’s one good reason why they became extinct.”"

"Architecturally, the town looked like the worst of all possible cheap-and-sleazy tract developments, but the psychic …"

"Stale is stale and borrowed is borrowed, no matter how original your models may have been."

"Autobiography. Apparently one should not name the names of those one has been to bed with, or give explicit figures o…"

"I enjoyed the late 1960s as much as anyone, and I regarded much of the political ferment of the time as vital to the …"

"Not all lawyers are annoying. Some are dead."