The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

And the rest is rust and stardust.

Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.

Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.

Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.

I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness.

The greatest act of domestic terrorism in the history of the USA is currently in process and the culprits are the energy, electrical, electronics and wireless radiation industries.

Rather than signalling the aspiration for system of checks and balances against absolute power, democracy become a euphemism for majority rule.

Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul.

The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.

When our interests and values are at stake, we have a responsibility to act.

The people must have amusement as well as religion...every pure enjoyment is from heaven.

Being in charge sometimes means making people mad. Some days you have to overrule even the best advice, because you think it is not right.

If you don't let things develop, it's like keeping something in a bag and not letting it out to fly

What is the good of life if its chief element, and that which must always be its chief element, is odious? No, the only true economy is to arrange so that your daily labor shall be itself a joy.

You know the Greeks didn't write obituaries. They only asked one question after a man died: "Did he have passion?"