I am cheerful. I don’t know if I’m happy. There is a difference, you know.
Writing a novel is not so much a project as a journey, a voyage, an adventure.
I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured.
Don’t talk about it – you’ll talk it away. Let the ideas flow from your mind to the page without exposing them to air. Especially hot air.
The very act of creation requires such focused concentration that vast areas of knowledge may be completely overlooked. Well, so what? There is no evidence that generalized skills are in any way superior to specialized brilliance.
Those same forces that drive a genius to create the things or ideas that entertain or enlighten us often gobble so much of his personality that he has none left for the social graces.
Does koala bear poop smell like cough drops?
Kissing is man’s greatest invention. All animals copulate, but only humans kiss.
Love is the ultimate outlaw.
If you were Jesus with missing years to kill where would you go?
Get yourself in that extreme state of being next to madness. You should always write with an erection. Even if you’re a woman.
You have to eat your technique. Digest it. It’s in your blood, but you’re not concerned with it anymore.
From the outside, my life may look chaotic, but inside I feel like some kind of monk licking an ice cream cone while straddling a runaway horse.
Outlaws are can openers in the supermarket of life.
The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being.
Purpose! Purposes are for animals with a hell of a lot more dignity than the human race! Just hop on that strange torpedo and ride it to wherever it’s going.
Actually, there are countless ways to live upon this tremorous sphere in mirth and good health, and probably only one way – the industrial, urbanized, herding way – to live here stupidly, and man has hit upon that one way.
Life is hard if you think it’s hard.
Certainly that sputterless little candleflame of the mediocre mind known as ‘common sense’ has never produced anything worth celebrating.
Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.