The greatest mania of all is passion: and I am a natural slave to passion: the balance between my brain and my soul and my body is as wild and delicate as the skin of a Ming vase.

The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.

Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination.

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn't got one.

Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.

America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?

Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.

Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.

And it was pretty much the best underwater kiss of all time.

Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.

Mostly it's lies, writing novels. You set out to tell an untrue story and you try to make it believable, even to yourself. Which calls for details; any good lie does.

Reason is the miner's lamp used in bringing up ore from the mind.

Creativity may well be the last legal unfair competitive advantage we can take to run over the competition.

I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever.

Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.

If you can light the spark of curiosity in a child, they will learn without any further assistance.

I work with few colors, what creates the illusion of quantity is that they fell in the right place.

My girlfriend looks a little like Charlize Theron...and a lot like Patrick Ewing.