Beer's intellectual. What a shame so many idiots drink it.

The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.

Ah, art! Ah, life! The pendulum swinging back and forth, from complex to simple, again to complex. From romantic to realistic, back to romantic.

How talented was death. How many expressions and manipulations of hand, face, body, no two alike.

In order for a thing to be horrible it has to suffer a change you can recognize.

Don't they get afraid, then?""They have a religion for that.

Her eyes reversed into herself, to watch the secret heart of herself pounding itself into pieces against the side of her chest.

People die every day, psychologically speaking. Some part of them gets tired. And that small part tries to kill off the entire person.

Well, I've kept you waiting long enough, " he said, peering at me from that distance which drinking adds between people and which, at odd turns in the evening, seems closeness itself.

They came to study the dreadful vulgarity of this imaginary Mass Man they pretend to hate. But they're fascinated with the snake-pit.

Everything about her was sweet, pale like honey. You would not have been surprised to see a bee caught in the tangles of that yellow hair.

Salesmen always need something to sell.

When you succeed you have a million people to thank, but when you fail there is only one person to blame.

A humanitarian is always a hypocrite.

I don't mind playing absolute bastards... I just don't want to play the grouch.

We know that the wages of secrecy are corruption. We know that in secrecy error, undetected, will flourish and subvert.

Education is not just you learn how a mosquito flies in the rain, but you learn how to be creative and why it's exciting to learn things and create things and make up new things.

For the most important decisions in your life, trust your intuition, and then work with everything you have, to prove it right.

I'm about as far from being a flag-waver - you won't find any American flag pins in my drawer - as someone can be.

I am this space my body believes in.