"The government shouldn't run anything, because it cannot run anything."

“Console yourself by remembering that the world doesn't deserve your affection.”

“See how weak prose is.... Presently I shall go to a bar and there one or two poets will speak to me and I to them and we will try to destroy each other or attract each other and nothing will happen because we will be speaking in prose.”

Source : Jack Spicer (2010). “My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer”, p.172, Wesleyan University Press

“But man must light for man The fires no other can, And find in his own eye Where the strange crossroads lie.”

“Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.”

Source : Los Angeles Times Home Magazine, February 20, 1977.

“Often when you're filming comedy and you've done six or seven takes, the joke's been done and you know you're gonna have to say it again in another set up. I think it's good not to be indulged too much.”

Source : Source: www.denofgeek.com

“I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.”

“If there's anything to be said in a broad way about different audiences it's that I live in a major city, and those themes of isolation, protectiveness, loneliness tend to resonate with other people in major cities. In a sleepier village, where people are married with their children, me standing up and saying, "This marriage idea is a funny old convention that we invented" - various things that are deconstructions of the norms of a culture - if people have already made decisions like that, they're more inclined to say "Please, stop talking about our marriages, 'cause we're here now."”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“If religions are diseases of the human psyche, as the philosopher Grintholde asserts, then religious wars must be reckoned the resultant sores and cankers infecting the aggregate corpus of the human race. Of all wars, these are the most detestable, since they are waged for no tangible gain, but only to impose a set of arbitrary credos upon another's mind.”

Source : "The Face". Book by Jack Vance, 1979.