Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.

Plots are like girdles. Hidden, they hold your interest; revealed, they're of no interest except to fetishists. Like girdles, they attempt to contain an uncontainable experience.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. By Order of the Author

Those who do things in a noble spirit of self-sacrifice are to be avoided at all costs.

It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being.

Any road followed to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.

I can't understand why a person will take a year or two to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.

Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth.

Eggheads unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.

Live fast, die young, and leave a good looking corpse.

One man's brain plus one other will produce one half as many ideas as one man would have produced alone. These two plus two more will produce half again as many ideas. These four plus four more begin to represent a creative meeting, and the ratio c

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.