You should never do two things. You should hammer one nail all your life, and I didn't do that; I hammered on a lot of nails like a xylophone.

As no two people see the world the same way, all trips from here to there are imaginary; all truth is a tale I am telling myself.

What are we here for? Does the great metaphysical nut revolve around that? Well, I'll crack it for you, right now. What are we here for? We are here to go!

I could easily blast so much keef night and day I become a bouhali; a real-gone crazy, a holy untouchable madman unto whom everything is permitted, nothing is true.

Man is a bad animal.

Writing is fifty years behind painting.

I enjoy inventing things out of fun. After all, life is a game, not a career.

Writers don't own their words. Since when do words belong to anybody. "Your very own words," indeed ! And who are you?

When ya gotta goNow we know what we are here for. We are not here to love fear and serve any old bearded but invisible thunder god. We are here to go.

Waking in the morning, I had to remember grief all over again. It was sunny, a white winter sun, and that made me sad.

Jesus seemed to believe that the key to generosity wasn’t having more, but being content with what you already have.

The kind of teacher who never learned anything herself. Or taught anything, except sarcasm or fear.

I would love to be fooled. The innocence of child for the first time, seeing something and being in wonder is something that I long for because I'm tainted.

My current computer, in addition to 'DOS,' has 'Windows,' which is another invention of Bill Gates, designed as a security measure to thwart those users who are somehow able to get past DOS.

People have sort of a problem trying to see an end to a situation as being positive or romantic.

Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters.

Those who take oaths to politically powerful secret societies cannot be depended on for loyalty to a democratic republic.

... everything written is at least in part fantasy. Except maybe the national budget. That's horror.