I'm interested in everything. I don't see why Borges can't work along with Neil Gaiman, or Stephen King can't be mixed with Balzac. It's just storytelling; it's different ways of using codes and images and words and sounds.

Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that makes no sense.

Resentment slowly poisoned my blood and I laughed at myself and my absurd hopes.

With women, the best part is the discovery. There's nothing like the first time, nothing. You don't know what life is until you undress a woman for the first time. A button at a time, like peeling a hot sweet potato on a winter's night.

Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.

That's what happens when people reach old age; nobody remembers they've been bastards too.

Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.