The short-story writer knows that he can't proceed cumulatively, that time is not his ally. His only solution is to work vertically, heading up or down in literary space.

I think we all have a little bit of that beautiful madness that keeps us walking when everything around us is so insanely sane.

Come sleep with me: We won't make Love,Love will make us.

Of all our feelings the only one which really doesn't belong to us is hope. Hope belongs to life, it's life itself defending itself. Etcetera.

Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are.

The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.

Time is born in the eyes, everybody knows that.

Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity.

The novel wins by points, the short story by knockout.

A short story relies on those values that make poetry and jazz what they are: tension, rhythms, inner beat, into unforeseen within foreseen parameters

Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair, in everything that deeply torments and unties and tricks.

Love is a two-way street, but not everyone deserves a license.

Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

Most wonderful things are unconscious.

Alltami (n.) The ancient art of being able to balance the hot and cold shower taps.

Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it.

When was the last good kiss you had?

Dubstep has been big in the UK for years. I'm fine with hearing a dubstep drop in any song.

I just think, as a species, what we [people] enjoy most is creation and creativity, and telling stories is an extension of expressing all the thoughts and ideas that we have inside of ourselves.