The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.

Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?

Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume; the hellish cycle is complete.

The work of art of the future will be the construction of a passionate life.

The world of the commodity is a world upside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work.

Work is the opposite of creativity.

Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

I do not dream of a gentle revolution. My passion runs to the violence of supersession, the ferocity of a life that renounces nothing.

Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation.

Don't You Get it? This very second you could be doing something you love and dream about doing. So do it! Now!

there are no inferior types of fiction, only inferior practitionersof them

[Jellyfish] are 97% water or something, so how much are they doing? Just give them another 3% and make them water. It's more useful.

All is a forever.

For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the last few paragraphs, the experience of surprise.

I try to balance independent films with commercial films, and I've done a pretty good job of it over the years.

Try never to be the smartest person in the room. And if you are, I suggest you invite smarter people... or find a different room.

All students of disaster movies know that nothing survives these natural onslaughts except cats and the highest paid film stars.

Stand-up and comedy is the place where we are supposed to be able to make fun of all of the world's ills.