There is still the outside world to contend with. A world of backfiring cars, and their human equivalents.

The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day.

Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings.

A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at.

There seemed to be some correlation between devotion to God and a misguided zeal for marshmallows.

All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is said and done the police are right: it all comes down to fingerprints.

Remember that the most important thing is to try and love other people as much as they love you.

Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

Work hard, play hard, love hard. <3

Anytime you're tempted to upsell someone else, stop what you're doing and upserve instead.

I don't bow down to the federal government.

You never know you are in a prison unless you try the door

I think that people always get what they deserve - whether you're around to see it or not.

When everyone in America knows you're in a dreadful position, admit you're in a dreadful position. Don't lie about it and make them roll their eyes, tell the truth and make them blink.

I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.

I wasn't certain of anything anymore, except that New Orleans was a faithless friend and I wanted to leave her.

In the old days, ptomaine poisoning was a cover-all. If you missed a show and you were young, it meant you were having an abortion. If you were old, it meant you were having a face lift.

If there's one thing I've learned in the last few months, it's that sometimes you just have to close your eyes and jump.