Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust.

You live in a deranged age, more deranged than usual because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.

To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something.

In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man.

We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their face away.

I like to eat crawfish and drink beer. That's despair?

In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished.

Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.

Lucky is the man who does not secretly believe that every possibility is open to him.

The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature.

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

To write is to descend, to excavate, to go underground.

I think it is very important for you to do two things: act on your temporary conviction as if it was a real conviction; and when you realize that you are wrong, correct course very quickly.

I am supposed to take the bullets and absorb them. Like a bear, a polar bear.

I'm not thinking about my numbers. I'm just trying to do the best I can to help the team win.

There are no shortcuts and no sweatless quickies.

I think we have always had a fascination for gangs and gangsters, and I think we always will.

Egotism, pride, etc. must be given up.

It's more like I was daydreaming when the Supreme Being told me what I should do with my life, and it's too late to ask what it was.