“You are better than you think. A-one, a-two a-three.”

“Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.”

“What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?”

“Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it.”

“And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.”

“Montana was naked, and so was Billy, of course. He had a tremendous wang, incidentally. You never know who'll get one.”

“My god-life! who can understand eve one little minute of it? 'don't try' he said 'just pretend you understand.”