Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their private parts.

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.

Solitude appeared to me as the only fit state of man.

Worry is down payment on a problem that hasn't happened. Trust Jesus!

Condoms aren't completely safe. A friend of mine was wearing one . . . and got hit by a bus.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Men the most infamous are fond of fame, And those who fear not guilt yet start at shame.

If there are problems with the subtle physical body, it's very hard for the kundalini to flow.

With The Nightingale, I had been kicking the idea around for years. I was frightened to write it because on the surface it seems so different for me.

The only relationships I haven't wrecked right away were the ones that wrecked me later.

I would say in just about every investigation we have, there will be differences of opinion, where you have partial facts, as to what those facts mean.

Rich people admire other rich and successful people. Poor people resent rich and successful people.