Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.

When a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle, I did my best to go in a circle, hoping to go in a straight line.

Yes, there is no good pretending, it is hard to leave everything.

[Y]ou cannot mention everything in its proper place, you must choose, between the things not worth mentioning and those and those even less so.

You can't have everything, I've often noticed it.

Unfathomable mind: now beacon, now sea.

I was limply poking about in the garbage saying probably, for at that age I must still have been capable of general ideas, This is life.

Have you shat, my child, I said gently.

In reality I said nothing at all, but I heard a murmur, something gone wrong with the silence, and I pricked up my ears, like an animal I imagine, which gives a start and pretends to be dead.

...The less I think of it the more certain I am.

I was out of sorts. They are deep, my sorts, a deep ditch, and I am not often out of them.

More free time means more time to waste. The worker who used to have only a little time in which to get drunk and beat his wife now has time to get drunk beat his wife - and watch TV.

Being an artist is a job for life.

If you look back through history in the United States, there have been very few landslide elections. Half the country always voted for someone else.

A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

Love simply is. [...] Love and don't ask too many questions. Just love.

However, science isn't just about showing when you're right; it's also about showing when you're wrong.

I am happy in my prison of passion

Next to ‘God’, ‘love’ is the word most mangled in every language.

Oh well, the truth hurts, doesn't it?

A lot of people have been bent one way or the other on that. I'm not going to weigh in on that; I'm happy to still be at large, I'll just put it that way.