The first religious experience that I can remember is getting under the nursery table to pray that the dancing mistress might be dead before we got to the Dancing Class.

I have defined Ladies as people who did not do things themselves.

the chief thing I learnt at school was how to tell lies.

You can have no idea, if you have not tried, how difficult it is to find out anything whatever from an encyclopedia, unless you know all about it already.

My father was a Creole his father a Negro and his father a monkey my family it seems begins where yours left off.

You don't spend your money while you're making it. You don't have time.

The Pacific Northwest, and particularly Whidbey Island, is extremely suited to be a location in a novel.

The personal is the political. That's an old tagline.

The women who intrigued me [as models] had the most beautiful necks and the most responsive hand movements. At one point, I found El Greco, and that elongated look became my way of seeing.

I just like doing standup, that's all I'm interested in or good at.

At the end of the day, I can end up just totally wacky, because I've made mountains out of molehills. With meditation, I can keep them as molehills.

The Ego is a veil between humans and God’.” “In prayer all are equal.

Nothing inspires more reverence and awe in me than an old man who knows how to change his mind.

The games industry is already bigger than the music industry, and it's mainly directed at teenage boys.