Time curses all, I thought, except the truth.

-Do you think it's dirty money? -All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it.

Theory is the practice of the impotent.

I think today will be the day. Today our luck will change,' I proclaimed on the wings of the first coffee of the day, pure optimism in a liquid state.

The greatest multiplex in the universe is inside your mind, and the only ticket you need is a good, well-written novel.

We seem to live in a world where forgetting and oblivion are an industry in themselves and very, very few people are remotely interested or aware of their own recent history, much less their neighbors'. I tend to think we are what we remember, what we know. The less we remember, the less we know about ourselves, the less we are. (Interview with Three Monkeys Online, October 2008)

I swim against the tide because I like to annoy.