All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter.

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

And the rest is rust and stardust.

Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.

Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.

Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.

Sadly, schools deal in the sale and exchange of knowledge, not wisdom." ~ "The Hole

The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.

What is man without the beasts? For if all the beast were gone, man would die of a great loneliness of the spirit.

All I believe in is food and myself.

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.

The less I say the more my work gets done.

I have never been able to soothe myself with the sugary delusions of religion; for these things stand convicted of the utmost absurdity in light of modern scientific knowledge.

We can be the best taught people on the face of the earth but the trouble is we don't live as well as we have been taught.

I have a lot to say about the world, clearly. I can't put together a clear sentence about it all, but through the work I can say what I think.

Until you take charge of your own life, things don't happen.