Writing [for the novelist] is not an activity, but a condition. That is why one simply can't resume the work when one has a job and a free half-day. Reading is the conveyance of this condition.

And what would you do, ... if you could rule the world for a day? I suppose I would have no choice but to abolish reality.

There is nothing in this world as invisible as a monument

Layer by layer art strips life bare.

One does what one is; one becomes what one does.

If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility.

Progress would be wonderful - if only it would stop.

One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.

Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has for every occasion only one dress and one path, and is always at a disadvantage.

The thought is not something that observes an inner event, but, rather it is this inner event itself. We do not reflect on something, but, rather, something thinks itself in us.

Life forms a surface that acts as if it could not be otherwise, but under its skin things are pounding and pulsing.

Light of star gives light on space.Light of God gives birth to all stars.

It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.

My body is like a Temple in Nepal. It is sacred, but has a lot of damage from the earthquake of my youth!

I believe in finding strengthand safety in the arm'sOf Fate

Learning to face reality, refusing refuge in cliches and lies, fighting to find a way out - that's what 'Rehab' is about.

My inspiration comes from that and so I wrote ‘Killing Jesus,’ because I think I was directed to write that.

We have found that bats adjust the timing of their sounds when they encounter clutter, and they seem to 'strobe' the world with sound.

Less smoking and more reading.

I believe in ghosts and spirits, and I believe that they can possess you.

That's what a Congressman or a Senator is for -- to see that too much money don't accumulate in the national Treasury.