I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.

There are times and places where not to be anyone is more honourable than to be someone.

Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.

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.

It's curious how easy it is to tell a piece of paper what you don't dare say to someone's face.

Television is the Antichrist, and I can assure you after only three or four generations, people will no longer even know how to fart on their own and humans will return to medieval savagery and to the general state of imbecility that slugs overcame back in the Pleistocene era. Our world will not die as a result of the bomb...it will die of laughter, of banality, of making a joke of everything and a lousy joke at that.

I wandered off, walking through streets that seemed emptier than ever, thinking that if I didn't stop, if I kept on walking, I wouldn't notice that the world I thought I knew was no longer there.