I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.

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Language is a virus from outer space.

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The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time... and you can't see it if you refuse to face the possibility.

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Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, "I am not paid to listen to this drivel - you are a terminal fool!" Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.

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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

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If you weren't surprised by your life you wouldn't be alive. Life is surprise.

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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.

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I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.

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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

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Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.

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