Being very famous is not the fun it sounds. It merely means you're being chased by a lot of people and you lose your privacy.

Life itself is an exile. The way home is not the way back.

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.

If you can train your senses to perceive the movement of the minute hand of a clock, what is to stop you for training them to 'slow down' when you look at a tree or a puddle?

Imagination should be used, not to escape reality but to create it.

Turning on the light is easy if you know where the switch is.

When we pull back and get, for a moment, the 'bird's eye' view of life, it reveals meanings that are ungraspable by the narrow focus of our usual worm's eye view

When I open my eyes in the morning, I am not confronted by a world, but by a million possible worlds.

Ask the Outsider what he ultimately wants,and he will admit he doesn't know.Why? Because he wants it instinctively,and it is not always possible to tell what your instincts are driving towards.

It is far easier to write an angry letter than to go and say angry things to another person - because as soon as we look in one another's faces we can see the other point of view.

Sexual activity is driven by the same aims and motives as reading poetry or listening to music: to escape the limitations imposed by the need for particularity in the consciousness.

If the moment is everthing, then everything is time.

I began to feel that all the people I'd ever known who had died or left me had not in fact gone away, but continued to live on inside me just as this man's wife lived on inside him.

If you have never seen a masterpiece, look in the mirror.

I'm not the settling-down type, I'm afraid. I think I'm cursed with a touch of Dating ADD.

Piracy begins where creativity ends.

Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.

BEGGAR, n. One who has relied on the assistance of his friends.

I think the guys that are successful might be a little more relaxed and able to deal with the distractions.

I'm one of the handful of survivors of the guys I came up with.

The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.