"Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I'd rather lie around. No contest."

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.

Uppers are no longer stylish, methedrine is almost as rare as pure acid or DMT. "Consciousness Expansion" went out with LBJ and it is worth noting, historically, that downers came in with Nixon.

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

... A solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.