We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

Kill the body and the head will die.

The waitress had the appearance of a very old hooker who had finally found her place in life

Too weird to live, too rare to die!

An intuitive insight or concept can often turn out to be an unexpected success.

It's better to hate someone in the beginning rather than end up hating someone after loving.

You are prettier than you can imagine.

My father-in-law . . . was a great inspiration to me both in life and in his preparation for death.

He was perceived to be intellectually promiscuous, a little too eager to please all groups.

It was Kovacs who said "Mother" then, muffled under latex. It was Kovacs who closed his eyes. It was Rorschach who opened them again.

Civilization will reach maturity only when it learns to value diversity of character and of ideas.

Photography is the art of not pushing the button.

It's much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.

Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.