Being able to create your own work, being able to indulge your own fantasies is so much better than journalism, so much more fulfilling than journalism, to me, that as long as I can continue to write fiction, I shall.
If you take any activity, any art, any discipline, any skill-take it and push it as far as it will go, push it beyond where it has ever been before, push it to the wildest edges of edges, then you force it into the realm of magic.
Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective.
First I think I was interested in the stories, and later on, I became more interested in the language itself, so the stories became almost secondary, but it was kind of a background music for my life.
Always compare yourself to the best. Even if you never measure up, it can’t help but make you better.
I never outline. I don’t work from an outline. I have no idea where the book is going. I mean, even two-thirds of the way through, I don’t know how it’s going to end.
Words on a page can hypnotize you if the rhythm is right.
The enemy is every expert who practices technocratic manipulation, the enemy is every proponent of standardization and the enemy is every victim who is so dull and lazy and weak as to allow himself to be manipulated and standardized.
If you want to make a name for yourself, the oldest trick in the book is to attack what everybody else reveres.
The mission of the artist in an over-technologi zed society, is to call the old magic back to life.
Our purpose is to consciously, deliberately evolve towards a wiser, more liberated and luminous state of being.
When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.
You know what the game of golf is, don’t you? It’s basketball for people who can’t jump and chess for people who can’t think.
The full moon – the mandala of the sky.
Eighty percent of love is smell.
The Japanese have become so smitten with the Western condiment – its texture as silky as a kimono, its tang as understated as the tang of Zen – that today they have a word for mayonnaise junkie: mayora.
Whatever goes wrong can be used to your advantage, providing it goes wrong enough.
I would only read the novels that people classify as ‘beach books’ if I were being held prisoner and the only alternative was the ‘Book of Mormon.’
As expected, you get his machine. Someday, even the “call of nature” will be answered by a machine.
If love eats the donut, does time eat the hole?