The aim here is not to separate fact from fantasy but to show how each embodies a distinct class of knowledge and how one is deeply implicated in the other.

Feast or famine. My plate is suddenly full.

Does it really hurt? Loving?

Every creative act – in science, art, or religion – involves a regression to a more primitive level, a new innocence of perception liberated from the cataract of accepted beliefs.

I did not consider him to be any kind of a genius. I considered him deeply lacking in the area that mattered most in life. Star quality.

Pat Benatar might need a rock band, but I can just sit with a blues guitar for an hour and a half and do folk songs and great contemporary ballads, and not many people can pull that off.

I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about my faults.

Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.

When I was young I used to read about the decline of Western civilization, and I decided it was something I would like to make a contribution to.

If a girl doesn't have a sense of humor, then what would you have to talk about?

Highest Providence often works a wonderful miracle: that of having evil men make others who are evil to become good.