It's good fun to create an unpredictable character. When he comes into the room, I don't know what he's going to do - I have to find my way.

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.

Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.

Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change.

My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.

When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable

Closure is a greasy little word which, moreover, describes a nonexistent condition. The truth, Venus, is that nobody gets over anything.

Perhaps there are other bits of my life that would take on content, take on shadow, if only I read more and thought less about money.

When you’ve lost all your play, guess what love becomes. Work. Work that gets harder every hour.

Love is blind; but it makes you see the blind man; teetering on the roadside . . .

Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of new rewards.

So much time spent believingwe had ghosts in our machines has accustomed us to hauntingourselves.

There's no mistaking what kind of potion I need. Caffeine - for alertness and rejuvenation.

I want the fever to grab me forever and want you to be my fever.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private.

I can handle being married for my money; it's being married for my life insurance that gives me pause.

Consumers are empowered by Yelp and tools like it: before, when they had a bad experience, they didn't have much recourse. They could fume, but often nothing else other than tell their friends.

The existing system will be quickest and most radically overthrown by the annihilation of its exponents. Therefore, massacres of the enemies of the people must be set in motion.

My creed of nonviolence is an extremely active force.

The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.